Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Calendar, Office of Our Lady, Office of the Cross, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead — c. 1470–1480; Italy, Padua

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Calendar, Office of Our Lady, Office of the Cross, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead — c. 1470–1480; Italy, Padua

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 21

Associated place

Italian

Place of origin

Italy, Padua

Date

c. 1470–1480

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 194 + 2 + ifol.

Decoration

Good borders

Good historiated initials

Good other initials

Penwork borders, with elaborate hairlines in blue, black and red

Binding

15th century, Italian(contemporary with the manuscript): wood boards; hard red polished leather, cuir ciselé, each cover incised with a different section of the same bold repeating pattern, of flowers and leaves set in a large vase (back cover); traces of a central clasp and of 4+1 bosses on each cover, all metal-work lost; edges gilt, gauffered (worn). Rebacked, 18th century, Italian, with paste-downs and flyleaves of carta bassanese, for Jacopo Soranzo, with his spine-label. Cf. MS. Canon. Liturg. 33 and MS. Canon. Liturg. 219

Acquisition

Bought by the Bodleian Library in 1817 from Giovanni Perissinotti. On the purchase, see Digital Bodleian

Provenance

Calendar suggests Padua

On fol. 13 is a coat of arms, possibly painted over a former coat of arms: parti per pale argent and azure, overall a pale dancetty gules . Underneath the shield, in a later hand (?): 'Rhegio–Marsilio'

Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727– c. 1806)

Following Canonici's death, the collection passed to his brother, Giuseppe Canonici, and then to Canonici's nephew, Giovanni Perissinotti, in 1807 following Giuseppe Canonici's death

Title

'... Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie'

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 21

Summary

'... Officium beate Marie Virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie':

Preceded by a Calendar

Followed by '... Officium sanctissime Crucis' (fol. 108v)

The Penitential Psalms and Litany (fol. 117v)

'... Officium Mortuorum' (fol. 147)

The Calendar points to Padua (on Nov. 7 st. Prosdocimus, who also occurs in the Litany at fol. 136v). On fol. 13 is a coat of arms:--party per pale argent and azure, over all a pale dancetty gules.

Date

Written in the 15th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, illuminated, binding, red leather, embossed, Italian work. There are several illuminated borders with miniatures, etc.

Physical extent

196 Leaves