MS. Canon. Liturg. 275
Summary Catalogue no.: 19377
Contents
Psalter (portable ferial Psalter, Gallican, Ambrosian rite)
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials. Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 739, pl. LXXI)
Binding
16th century, c. 1559, Italian, Milan: pasteboards; covering of parchment, a reversed document; no decoration on covers or spine, except for an ink title centred near top of front cover in large formal gothic script by the owner of 1559, Franciscus Castellus of Milan Cathedral; sewn on three tanned leather cords; traces of two lost pairs of fore-edge ties of dark red textile, ends splayed out under the paste-downs; edges plain. 137–9 × 105 × c. 27–9 mm. (book closed).
History
Record Sources
Summary description based on Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 506–9. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue. Binding: B. C. Barker-Benfield, Bookbindings of Canonici manuscripts : a survey of early and non-standard bindings, mostly Italian, in the Canonici collection of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Oxford, privately printed, 2020).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 40
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-08-20: Binding description added.