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MS. Lat. liturg. c. 1

Summary Catalogue no.: 31377

Contents

Antiphonal.

Combined temporale and sanctorale, ending with the feast of St Lucia (fol. 13 December)

Common of the dedication (fol. 229) and the saints (fol. 231)

Office of the holy Trinity (fol. 248v)

Office of the dead (fol. 252), followed by some antiphons and responsories of the burial service (fol. 255)

Imperfect at the end. Some rubrics.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
1 + 267 (266) + 1 fol.
Dimensions (leaf): 343 × 255 mm.
Dimensions (written): 283 × 163 mm.
Musical Notation:

Square notation on 12 staves of 4 or 5 lines (one red, one yellow).

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 65)

Binding

Metal bosses and clasps, 15th century, on a modern binding. The metal work bears the words 'Aue Maria gracia plena comin.'

History

Origin: c. 1200 ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

The volume was written for a religious community of fratres and a prepositus (fols. 24v, 133v) and was, according to a sale catalogue, ‘ad usum fratrum sancti Carpophori’ (in Milan (?)).

Armorial bookplate 'ex libris M.A. Principis Burghesii': Paolo Borghese, 1845-1920.

Borghese sale, June 1892, no. 4555; bought by the Bodleian.

Record Sources

Description adapted from the following sources:
Summary Catalogue (1924)
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 141
Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Summary Catalogue, vol. 6, p. 44
Summary Catalogue, vol. 6, p. 45

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (fol. 1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 2: Office Books (typescript, 1957), p. 141

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Revised to include all information in printed catalogues.