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MS. Canon. Liturg. 339

Summary Catalogue no.: 19425

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Breviary-Missal

Festive masses after the Office and mass of Corpus Christi (fols. 68v-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

Partly mutilated. By two hands, the second starting on fol. 82. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 161)

Good borders.

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials.

Later drawings on the fly-leaves.

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.