A former pastedown formed of a waste leaf (with blank spaces for coloured initials) from a 12th-century liturgical manuscript — 12th century, beginning; German, South

Title

A former pastedown formed of a waste leaf (with blank spaces for coloured initials) from a 12th-century liturgical manuscript — 12th century, beginning; German, South

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 188

Associated place

German

Place of origin

Germany

German, South

Date

12th century, beginning

12th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i (modern paper) + 149 + 1 + i (modern paper) + inserted slip (fol. 11b)

Hands

Late Caroline. Diples to mark quotations are usually in the margins as usual, but sometimes written above the relevant words (e.g. fol. 92v)

Rubrics in rustic capitals.

Decoration

A large vegetal initial drawn in orange, partly infilled in red, and against a ground of yellow wash, at the beginning of each biblical book (fols. 2r, 75v, 122r) and a small one to the argument to II Cor. (fol. 121v) (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1298, pl. CXVIII).

Elsewhere plain red initials.

Binding

Medieval, German: thick wood boards, bevelled; brown leather tooled simply with blind lines on covers and spine; traces of two strap-and-pin fastenings, running from back cover to centre front, and of 4+1 circular bosses on each cover, all lost; ; (later?) parchment title-label at upper centre of front cover, with medieval ink lettering (cf. MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 172). Spine stamped with 19th-century gilt lettering and later re-laid onto new reback leather, 20th century, Bodleian. 322–324 c. 210 c. 70 (book closed).

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Numerous 12th-century corrections, marginal additions, ‘Nota’ marks, etc.

12th-/13th-century name ‘Engelbertus …’ (fol. 149v), ‘A Engelb’ (fol. 150r).

Unidentified 14th/15th-century German library: apparently from the same library as MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 172: although the bindings and the hands of the title-labels are different, the labels have the same format: two letters of the alphabet in red to the left, and a two-line summary of contents in black, with main words underlined in red.

Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727–1806), Jesuit and bibliophile of Venice; from whom his manuscripts passed to his brother:

Giuseppe Canonici (d. 1807), and on the latter’s death to their nephew:

Giovanni Perisinotti, from whom over 2,000 were:

Title

Haimo of Auxerre, Commentary on St. Paul's Epistles to Romans and Corinthians

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 188

Date

12th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume