Breviary (Choir), Use of Rome (Franciscan), Temporale, General rubrics, Liturgical statutes of the general Chapter of Pisa, Rubric for Advent (and rubrical tables for the ferial antiphons before Christmas), Rubrics for the Sundays after Pentecost, Rubrics for the feast of St Thomas apostle, for the feast and octave of Corpus Christi, Rubrics for the office of the Holy Cross, etc., Order of grace, Sanctorale, Ferial psalter with hymns, Final antiphons of the Virgin and commemorations, Last portion of a hymnal which remained unfinished — 15th century, second half; Italy, North (?)

Title

Breviary (Choir), Use of Rome (Franciscan), Temporale, General rubrics, Liturgical statutes of the general Chapter of Pisa, Rubric for Advent (and rubrical tables for the ferial antiphons before Christmas), Rubrics for the Sundays after Pentecost, Rubrics for the feast of St Thomas apostle, for the feast and octave of Corpus Christi, Rubrics for the office of the Holy Cross, etc., Order of grace, Sanctorale, Ferial psalter with hymns, Final antiphons of the Virgin and commemorations, Last portion of a hymnal which remained unfinished — 15th century, second half; Italy, North (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 306

Associated place

Italian

Date

15th century, second half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

1 + 416 (419) + 1 leaves

Binding

15th century, Italian(same as manuscript): severe damp damage, ? from immersion; pasteboards (probably late replacements); original cover of dark brown leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines, tools, dots and strapwork; spine lost; no clear surviving evidence of clasps, unless possibly of a central strap-and-pin fastening; outlines of a small circular metal fitting at the centre of each cover; edges plain, distorted. Heavily repaired with reback in lighter brown leather and probably new boards, late 19th century, Bodleian

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

'...Breuiarium secundum consuetudinem Romane curie'

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 306

Summary

'...Breuiarium secundum consuetudinem Romane curie', consisting of:

A Proprium de Tempore (fol. 1)

Proprium ('festiuitates') Sanctorum (fol. 203: incomplete)

Psalter with hymns (fol. 356)

Leaves are wanting after fols. 355, 387, cf. fol. 356.

Date

Written in the first half of the 15th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, imperfect, in double columns

Physical extent

420 Leaves