MS. Canon. Misc. 144
Summary Catalogue no.: 19620
Contents
Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 1)
, Scala fidei 2. (fol. 51)
Treatise on confession Incipit: Cum ad salutem suam quilibet teneatur confiteri peccata sua
Explicit: non concupisces non desiderabis etc.
3. (fol. 75)
Life of St. Louis, bishop of Toulouse (fol. 97(98))
Epistle (Sap. 8, Iuvenis et acutus inveniar) and gospel (Mark 10: Sinite parvulos) for a mass of St Louis
(fol. 98(99))
Account of the translation of St Louis
Incipit: Gloriosus dei confessor et pontifex illustris et inclitus
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 108 × 75 mm.
Foliation: Original foliation in Roman numerals in the second part of the volume, fols. 75–119.
Layout
27 lines
Decoration
Good initials on fols. 75–119. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 533)
Initials on a gold ground, fols. i, xxv, xxix verso.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Possibly from the church and nunnery of St Louis, near Venice, dioc. Castello, referred to in the letter on fol. 103v.
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.
Record Sources
Description adapted (2018) from S. J. P. Van Dijk, Handlist of the Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford (typescript, 1957) Vol. 1: Mass Books, p. 205, Pächt and Alexander, and the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 533
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-07-24: Description revised to include information from van Dijk and all information in Quarto.