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MS. Canon. Liturg. 344

Summary Catalogue no.: 19430

Contents

Missal, Use of Chartres

Fragmentary kalendar (fol. 1: March-April, September-October); temporale (fol. 3) with prefaces (fol. 101v), order of the mass (fol. fol. 103v) and votive masses (fol. 108) after Holy Saturday; tropes and proses (162); sanctorale (fol. 176), beginning with the vigil of St. Andrew and masses of the dead on 2 November (fol. 221); common (fol. 226); benedictio sponsalium (243v); blessing of holy water (fol. 245); list of content of the common (fol. 246v); some additions. No rubrics, except for Holy Week and the order of the mass.

Two leaves missing after fol. 38, one missing after fol. 218.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 248 (249) + ii fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 262 × 170 mm.
Dimensions (written): 187 × 120 mm.
Foliation: Original foliation in Roman figures, red in the temporale, black in the sanctorale, while the common is numbered with red letters.

Layout

2 col. of 30 lines

Decoration

Good borders partly defaced, initials. (P&A i. 577)

History

Origin: 14th century, beginning ; French, Chartres, cathedral

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford Vol. 1: Mass Books, Pächt and Alexander, and the Summary Catalogue (1897).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 386

Bibliography

    Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, I (1966), no. 577