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MS. Canon. Liturg. 43

Summary Catalogue no.: 19248

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Bourges
Calendar in French (fol. 1), a saint for every day
Pericopes from the gospels (fol. 13-6; 2, 30-5)
Obsecro te (fol. 17, preceding the kalendar, 18 etc.), and O intemerata (fol. 223, 20, etc.)
Office of the Virgin (fol. 24)
Offices of the cross (fol. 98v) and of the holy Ghost (fol. 108v)
Penitential Psalms (fol. 115v) with litany (fol. 130v)
Office of the dead (fol. 139)
Passion according to St John (fol. 198)
Leaves from the office of the Virgin (fol. 211-29).
Language(s): Latin and Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
ix + 1 + 235 + ix fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 165 × 115 mm.
Dimensions (written): 80 × 53 mm.

Condition

Many leaves misbound.

Layout

14 lines

Decoration

'By Maître François: close in style to the Missal made for the Sainte Chapelle, Paris, Bibl. Mazarine, MS. 412' (Pächt and Alexander i. 748, pl. LVIII).

Fine miniatures. Five miniatures at the beginning of the Hours of the Virgin, the main parts of the book and of each gospel. .

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

History

Origin: c. 1470–1480 ; French

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol.1: 'T.N.[16?]92' (17th century ?)

'This is not certainly a Canonici volume' (Summary Catalogue)

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 748
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 40a
Summary Catalogue (1897)
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 338

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (20 images 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. 40a

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-10: Incorporate all information from printed catalogues.

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