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MS. Canon. Liturg. 286

Summary Catalogue no.: 19386

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: iv + 319 + v fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 177 × 130 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 40 lines, column space 118 × 37 mm.

Decoration

Fine border.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 169, pl. XIII)

Binding

16th century, early, Flemish?: wood boards, shallow bevel; brown leather, with a blind panel of ‘Flemish animals’ (two rows of five beasts in foliage, around the central motto ‘Ora pro nobis sancta dei genitrix’, a standard Flemish design) stamped four times on each cover; traces of two lost strap-and-pin fastenings with straps of dark blue textile, running from back fore-edge to two lost pins over halfway across front board; edges gilt, gauffered. Rebacked, 18th century, Italian, in lighter brown leather with gilt red-leather label and paste-downs of splotched marbled paper. 189–190 × 137 × c. 75 mm. (book closed).

For similar panels, see Staffan Fogelmark, Flemish and related panel-stamped bindings: evidence and principles, New York 1990, pp. 145 & n. 305, 151 n. 329, 216ff., 221; pl. XLII, R.106–107.

History

Origin: 1464 ; German, Westphalia

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966). 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).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 374

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 268
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 278

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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