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MS. Canon. Liturg. 36

Summary Catalogue no.: 19246

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 124 + i fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 101 × 71 mm.
Dimensions (written): 56 × 34 mm.

Layout

16 lines.

Hand(s)

Italian script. (Pächt and Alexander i. 338)

Decoration

Good borders.

Good initials. (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

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian (script); Flemish (decoration)

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. 338

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

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.