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

MS. Canon. Liturg. 63

Summary Catalogue no.: 19251

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 1 + 221 + 5 + 1 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 143 × 100 mm.
Dimensions (written): 63 × 44 mm.

Layout

12 lines

Decoration

Good miniatures.

Good borders.

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 616, pl. XLVI)

Binding

16th century, late, or 17th century, Italian?: pasteboards; dark brown polished leather, tooled with blind and gilt lines, a gilt frame and corner-pieces, and gilt centrepieces of the Crucified Christ (front) or Virgin and Child (back), each amidst gilt stars; spine with blind and gilt lines and a gilt stamp; remains of two clasps with (lost) straps of similar gilt leather; edges gilt, gauffered (worn). Sewn on five double cords (medieval sewing?). Top of spine repaired with new leather, 20th century?, Bodleian. 147–150 × c. 100 × c. 45–8 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; French, Paris

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 (1 image 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. 202

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.