MS. Canon. Liturg. 339

Summary Catalogue no.: 19425

Festive masses after the Office and mass of Corpus Christi (fols. 68^v-81); common of the saints and votive masses after the breviary (fols. 267–74).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Musical Notation:

Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).

Decoration

Good borders, historiated and other initials. Partly mutilated. By two hands, the second starting on fol. 82. Later drawings on the fly-leaves. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 161)

History

Origin: 14th century, first half ; Italian, South

Provenance and Acquisition

Liturgical evidence possibly for Carinola, Campania.

Recovered in 1449 by Ladislaus, count of Porcilia, 'decanus Aquilegiensis' (fol. i verso).

Record Sources

Description adapted (2018) from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford (typescript) Vol. 1: Mass Books; Pächt and Alexander; and the Summary Catalogue.

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 385

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 227

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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