Durandus — 15th century, end; Italian, Venice

Title

Durandus — 15th century, end; Italian, Venice

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. liturg. e. 19

Place of origin

Italian, Venice

Date

15th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (original parchment) + 79 + ii (modern paper)

Decoration

Two large historiated initials, each showing a bishop, the first holding a small book (fol. 1r), the second wearing a mitre and holding a pastoral staff (fol. 5r).

fol. 1r also with a four-sided foliate border containing a coat of arms surmounted by a mitre.

Smaller historiated initials depicting e.g. blocks of masonry (fol. 33r), an altar (fol. 48r, 51r, 56v), the entrace to a cemetary (fol. 57v), a chalice (fol. 63r), various ecclesiastical paraphenali, vestments, etc..

Large foliate illuminated initials.

Minor initials alternately red with purple penwork, or blue with red penwork

Binding

Original binding. Sewn on three split alum-tawed and red-stained bands, laced into wood boards with cushioned edges, covered with black leather, each cover blind tooled with a coat of arms in each cormer and in the centre (see under provenance), and rope-work designs; each cover also originally with four corner bosses, now missing; traces remain of two strap-and-pin fastenings at the fore-edge of the upper board, and the middle of the lower board

Acquisition

Bequeathed by him to the Bodleian, 1927

Provenance

In the lower margin of fol.1 and tooled on the covers are the arms: party per fess sable and argent, a cross moline counterchanged: either (i) A. Suriano, patriarch of Venice 1504–08 (Ughelli, Italia Sacra, VI, 1309), or (ii) A. de Ortis, bishop of Satriano (ibid. VII, 854)

Count Louis Apponyi, of Nagy Appony, Hungary, his sale, Sotheby's 10 Nov. 1892 and four days following, lot 1001 (a cutting from the catalogue is pasted in at the back), bought by Ellis for £16 10s.

H. A. Wilson