Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Office of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Holy Ghost, Mass of the Virgin — 15th century, third quarter; Italy, Venice

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Office of the Virgin, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Holy Ghost, Mass of the Virgin — 15th century, third quarter; Italy, Venice

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 23

Associated place

Italian

Place of origin

Italy, Venice

Date

15th century, third quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 1 + 160 + i fol.

Decoration

Good historiated border

Good historiated initials, e.g. 1, 105, 139, 18v, 37, 44v and 50v

Good other initials

Binding

16th century or early 17th century, Italian: pasteboards; dark brown leather, tooled with blind and gilt lines, gilt floral stamps, and gilt centrepieces of oval sunbursts enclosing Crucified Christ (front) or Virgin and Child (back); spine with gilt lines and single stamps; remains of two hinged metal clasps; edges stained reddish purple. Added paste-downs and flyleaves of carta bassanese, 18th century, Italian, for Jacopo Soranzo, with his spine-label

Acquisition

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

Provenance

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. 23

Summary

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

Followed by the Penitential Psalms and Litany (fol. 105)

The 'Officium Sancti Spiritus' (fol. 139)

A 'Missa in honore beate Marie Virginis' (fol. 145), etc.

Date

Written in the 15th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with some illuminated borders, miniatures, etc.

Physical extent

160 Leaves