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MS. Canon. Liturg. 277

Summary Catalogue no.: 19379

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 154 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 135 × 95 mm.

Layout

1 col., 13 lines, 90 × 55 mm.

Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Fine historiated and other initials. Written in the scriptorium of St. Chrysogonus, Zadar. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 19, pl. II)

History

Origin: 1072 or 1091 × 1102 ; Italian, Zadar (Zara) (present-day Croatia)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).

Availability

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Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (314 images from 35mm slides)

Microfilm

Microfilm available in the open shelf collections in the Weston Library (R. Films 101)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 267
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 2

Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.