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MS. Canon. Liturg. 75

Summary Catalogue no.: 19253

Contents

Book of Hours, Use of Paris
Language(s): Latin and Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
1 + 193 + 1 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 185 × 135 mm.
Dimensions (written): 98 × 62 mm.

Layout

14 lines.

Decoration

Fine miniatures.

Fine historiated borders.

Fine initials. By the Boucicaut Master and the Egerton Master. (Pächt and Alexander i. 642, pl. L)

Binding

16th century, late, or 17th century, French or Italian: pasteboards; light brown leather, tooled all in gilt with double lines forming a panel on each cover with floral corner-pieces, around a central wreath of thick, small leaves in an upright oval; spine also gilt (damaged); traces of two sets of brown fabric ties, lost. 192 × 135–138 × c. 48 mm. (book closed).

Edges gilt, gauffered (very worn), probably inherited from a previous binding along with the present front paste-down which bears an inscription dated 1500.

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; 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. 339
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 340

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (13 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

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.