MS. Canon. Liturg. 368

Summary Catalogue no.: 19452

Calendar (fol. 1), November-December missing; temporale (fol. 6) with general rubrics (97^v) and order of the mass (fol. 98^v: Quando presbiter); sanctorale (fol. 138); common of the saints and the dedication (fol. 169); votive masses (fol. 185); blessing of holy water (fol. 198^v); marriage service (fol. 199^v); additional blessings (fol. 200).

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 200 + ii fol.

Dimensions (leaf): 333 × 233 mm.

Dimensions (written): 233 × 155 mm.

Condition

Several leaves missing after fols. 115, 132, 144, 161, 200.

Layout

2 col. of 35 lines. 22 mm. between the columns.

Musical Notation:

Square notation on staves of 4 red lines.

Decoration

(Pächt and Alexander ii. 196, pl. XVIII)

Good miniatures; on fol. 105 a full-page crucifixion.

Good borders, on the titlepage (fol. 6) and the beginning of the canon (fol. 106).

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; Italian, Tuscany

Provenance and Acquisition

Ex libris of the Teutonic Knights, St Mary Magdalen, Padua, late 15th cent., fol. 1: 'Hoc missale est monasterij sancte Marie Magdalene de Padua'; apparently not made for use there (calendar has been adapted).

Record Sources

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. 393

Bibliography

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 196

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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