Ritual — 15th century, beginning; Italian, Bologna (?)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 308
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Ritual — 15th century, beginning; Italian, Bologna (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 308
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian, Bologna (?)
Date
15th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials.
Retouched (?). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 648, pl. LXIII)
Musical notation
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Binding
15th century or early 16th century, Italian: wood boards with narrow inside bevel; dark red polished leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines and an arabesque roll(?) to form an empty panel on each cover, lines also on the turn-ins; spine with similar blind tooling, but damaged and covered with later paper; traces of two fore-edge clasps with lost straps of leather over parchment cores; parchment spine-liners from a Latin liturgical manuscript, 14th or 15th century, Italian; edges gilt, probably gauffered (very worn). Spine crudely covered in yellowish paper with ink title, 18th century, Italian. 219–220 144–145 c. 20 (book closed). The manuscript, partly a processional, is from the ‘nuns of St. Louis’ [of Toulouse], perhaps at Sant’Alvise, Venice.
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Title
Manual offices and processions
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 308
Summary
Manual offices and processions, all with musical notes where needed, consisting of:
The offices for the sick and dead (fol. 1)
Processions (fol. 30v)
Benedictions, etc. (fol. 47)
Date
Written in the first half of the 15th century in Italy
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment
Physical extent
65 Leaves
Custodial history
'Liber iste est dominarum Sancti Ludouici. ad laudem Domini Yhesu eiusque matris' (Franciscans ?: 15th cent.).
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
Manual offices and processions
