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MS. Canon. Liturg. 383

Summary Catalogue no.: 19465

Contents

Breviary, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
437 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 350 × 250 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 35 lines, column space 208 × 70 mm.

Decoration

Partly in the style of Fouquet, partly imitations by an Italian (?). (Pächt and Alexander i. 720, pl. LVI)

Fine borders on fols. 1–19.

Fine historiated initials on fols. 1–19.

Fine other initials on fols. 1–19. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 396, pl. XXXVIII).

Important miniature by Jean Fouquet (?), fol. 258a.

Historiated borders on fols. 20–438.

Historiated initials on fols. 20–438.

Other initials on fols. 20–438.

Binding

16th century or 17th century?, Italian: wood boards; red velvet, worn, and plain after loss of all metalwork; traces of four broad straps, of four large filigree corner-pieces and of an oval centrepiece (? armorial) over the velvet on each cover; edges gilt, gauffered, somewhat uneven (? after resewing); velvet spine lost. Rebacked in red leather, later 19th century (‘recent’ in 1897), Bodleian. 365–366 × 255–258 × c. 100–105 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 1470 ; Italian, Ferrara (fols. 1–19); ; French

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. 396

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (12 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 282
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 259

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.