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MS. Canon. Liturg. 37

Summary Catalogue no.: 19247

Contents

Offices and prayers (Premonstratensian)

Accessus altaris premonstratensium … (11v). Recessus altaris … (16); penitential psalms with litany … (31v); devotions of the Seven Words (36) (?) the Seven Joys (39v); psalms of the passion (64v); prayers in German (71) during mass, during and after the elevation, etc.

Language(s): Latin with a little German

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 78 leaves, several blank
Dimensions (leaf): 105 × 85 mm.

Layout

14-17 lines.

Binding

16th century, early, German (as MS.), strongly bound for partly processional use: wood boards; polished pigskin, blind-tooled with double or triple lines and stamps in an all-over pattern, differing on each cover; remains of central clasp with lost strap of light brown leather running from back fore-edge to a front catch-plate embossed with a pattern which roughly matches the adjacent stamp; four metal corner-pieces and a centrepiece on each cover, each with several boss-like protrusions; glue-marks on front paste-down from a lost item (?? image) formerly pasted there. 115 × c. 93 × c. 35-36 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 1507 ; German

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford (typescript, 1957) Vol. 1: Mass Books, p. 211. 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). Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 338

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-07-24: Binding description added.