Offices and prayers (private) — c. 1470–1480; Italian, Venice (?)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 136
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Description
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Title
Offices and prayers (private) — c. 1470–1480; Italian, Venice (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 136
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian, Venice (?)
Date
c. 1470–1480
Language
Latin
Italian
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iv + 2 + 170 (179) + 34 (blank) + i fol.
Decoration
Good miniatures.
Good borders.
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 557)
Binding
18th century, early, Italian: pasteboards(?); hard dark leather stippled like cuir ciselé or shagreen, now decorated only with quadruple blind lines; formerly covered with metal-work, all now lost, with holes for two clasps, four bosses and a large irregular-shaped centrepiece on each cover; edges shiny gilt, heavily gauffered; paste-downs of ‘Dutch gilt paper’, gilt on red, each with a different design of a huntsman(?) carrying a long-handled implement, cf. MS. Canon. Liturg. 219. Bound in at the front are coloured hand-copies on parchment of two early 18th-century engravings of St. Anthony with the baby Jesus and of St. John the Baptist. Fragmentary spine-label of Jacopo Soranzo. 107–108 77–78 c. 40 (book closed).
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Title
Private offices and prayers
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 136
Summary
Private offices and prayers, including:
'Officium de Passione ... Christi ...' (fol. 1)
'Officium Spiritus Sancti' (fol. 32v)
'Officium Conceptionis Virginis' (fol. 34v)
Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 41)
'Letanie beatissime Virginis Marie' (fol. 61v)
'Septem gaudia Virginis Marie' (fol. 84v)
'Versus [octo] sancti Bernardi' (fol. 114v)
'Modus orandi & forma dicendi Pater Noster & Aue Maria in septimana sacra' (fol. 135v)
See also fols. 25, 81v, etc.
Some prayers are in Italian (fol. 159v). Two coloured engravings of Stt. Antony and John the Baptist, printed on parchment, are at fols. iii, iv (17th cent.?). The end papers (17th cent.?) bear stamped figures.
On fol. 1 is a coat of arms which may be described roughly as:--barry of six argent and gules, on a chief azure a trefoil ornament on a base or.
Date
Written in the second half of the 15th century in Italy
Language
Latin
Italian
Physical facet
On parchment, with a few miniatures, a border, etc.
Physical extent
214 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
Private offices and prayers
