MS. Canon. Liturg. 99
Summary Catalogue no.: 19258
Contents
Additional prayers in French
Calendar in French, a saint for every day
Pericopes from the gospels
Office of the Virgin
Offices of the Cross and the Holy Ghost (fol. 69)
Penitential Psalms with litany (fol. 81)
Office of the dead
Obsecro te and O intemerata (fol. 111v)
Commemorations
Prayers to the Virgin on Saturday (Missus est Gabriel angelus).
Physical Description
Layout
17 lines
Decoration
By various hands. (Pächt and Alexander i. 813, pl. LX)
Good miniatures. (At the beginning of each part, and Hours of the Lady office; in the calendar the labours of the months)
Good borders.
Good initials.
Binding
16th century?, French?, perhaps not the original binding since the edges are trimmed too close to and badly cropping the major illuminations: wood boards with inside bevel. Re-covered with new red velvet, late 19th or 20th century, Bodleian; the earlier plain red velvet covering and worn spine are preserved inside, showing traces of two lost fore-edge clasps (filigree?). Edges gilt, with possible faint traces of gauffering; paste-downs and endleaves of coarse, 16th-century paper. 216 × c. 135–6 × c. 45 mm. (book closed).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On fol.72 a coat of arms: azure, on a fess argent, between three staves raguly or, three roses gules (?).
Matteo Luigi Canonici of Venice (1727 – c. 1806), but not from the libraries of Soranzo or Trevisan.
Bodleian Library: bought in 1817 from Canonici’s nephew Giovanni Perissinotti.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (12 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2025-05: Incorporate all information from printed catalogues.