MS. Canon. Liturg. 55
Summary Catalogue no.: 19250
Contents
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 2 + 160 + 2 + 2 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 152 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 83 × 48 mm.
Layout
19 lines
Binding
16th century, French?: pasteboards; brown leather, tooled with blind and gilt lines and an all-over design of gilt interlaced ribbon-work; at the centre of each cover, gilt letters ‘I B’; spine with gilt lines and a small gilt pattern at the centre of each panel, no title or label; no traces of clasps or ties; edges gilt, gauffered. Rebacked in lighter leather, 20th century, Bodleian, original spine re-laid. 158–159 × 105–107 × c. 40 mm. (book closed).
History
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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 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. 215
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.