MS. Canon. Liturg. 36
Summary Catalogue no.: 19246
Contents
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Hand(s)
Italian script. (Pächt and Alexander i. 338)
Binding
16th century or 17th century, Italian?: pasteboards; dark brown leather, very worn, decorated with blind lines, gilt lines and corner-pieces; gilt centrepiece on back cover with a crowned monogram ‘MRA’ (? for Maria, B. V. M.) surrounded by fleurs-de-lis, front cover probably similar but worn away; spine tooled with gilt lines and one small circular tool; traces of two lost fore-edge clasps or pairs of ties; edges gilt, partly gauffered, the illuminated borders severely trimmed. 105 × 70–74 × c. 22 mm. (book closed).
History
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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 305
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-24: Binding description added.