A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Liturg. 393

Summary Catalogue no.: 19474

Contents

Psalter
Language(s): Latin and Old French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good miniatures (drawings), historiated and other initials. The miniatures of Old and New Testament scenes have French captions. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 1051, pl. LXXXV)

History

Origin: 13th century, end ; Italy (?) or Southern France (?)

Record Sources

Summary description based on Elizabeth Solopova, Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library: A Select Catalogue (Oxford, 2013), pp. 461–8. Previously described in the Summary Catalogue.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (7 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.