Breviary, Use of Rome — 1470; Multiple places of origin
MS. Canon. Liturg. 383
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Breviary, Use of Rome — 1470; Multiple places of origin
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 383
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
French
Italian, Ferrara (fols. 1–19)
Date
1470
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
437 + i fols.
Decoration
Fine borders on fols. 1–19.
Fine historiated initials on fols. 1–19.
Fine other initials on fols. 1–19. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 396, pl. XXXVIII).
Important miniature by Jean Fouquet (?), fol. 258a.
Historiated borders on fols. 20–438.
Historiated initials on fols. 20–438.
Other initials on fols. 20–438.
Binding
16th century or 17th century?, Italian: wood boards; red velvet, worn, and plain after loss of all metalwork; traces of four broad straps, of four large filigree corner-pieces and of an oval centrepiece (? armorial) over the velvet on each cover; edges gilt, gauffered, somewhat uneven (? after resewing); velvet spine lost. Rebacked in red leather, later 19th century (‘recent’ in 1897), Bodleian. 365–366 255–258 c. 100–105 (book closed).
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Title
A Roman Breviary
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 383
Summary
A Roman Breviary, consisting of:
A calendar (fol. 1)
'Psalterium secundum consuetudinem Romane curie' (fol. 7)
Proprium de Tempore (fol. 59: wanting the first leaf)
Proprium ('festiuitates') Sanctorum (fol. 258a)
'Commune Sanctorum' with smaller offices (fol. 404v)
The illuminations are fine, often in medallion form, comprising miniatures (large at fol. 258a), borders, and capitals.
Date
Written in 1470 in North Italy by Andreas
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, in double columns, illuminated, see below, binding, red velvet on boards, back, leather, recent.
Physical extent
438 Leaves
Custodial history
A Latin elegiac poem of 24 lines on fol. 436 states that the book was written and illuminated in A.D. 1470 for 'Joannes Baptista' de Girardis (Gherardo), born at Bologna, canon of St. Peter's at Rome: mr. J, W. Bradley (manuscript note in book, cf. his Dict, of Miniaturists, i. 259) conjectures that the illuminations are by Girolamo da Cremona, who worked at Siena. 'Andreas minimus' is on fol. 436 in the hand of the scribe.
In the Maffei Pinelli sale (1789) this MS. was no. 12820 (the poem is printed in the catalogue, with a full description): there bought for £32 6s. by -- Kearney. 'Canonici' is on the (recent) back of the binding.
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
A Roman Breviary
