Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Office of the Virgin, Calendar, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Obsecro te, Additional prayers, Office of the Cross, Office of the Holy Ghost, Mass of the Virgin, Pericopes from the gospels — 15th century, third quarter; Flemish, Bruges(?) (Italian style script)

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Office of the Virgin, Calendar, Penitential Psalms, Litany, Office of the Dead, Obsecro te, Additional prayers, Office of the Cross, Office of the Holy Ghost, Mass of the Virgin, Pericopes from the gospels — 15th century, third quarter; Flemish, Bruges(?) (Italian style script)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 36

Associated place

Italian

Place of origin

Flemish, Bruges(?) (Italian style script)

Date

15th century, third quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 124 + i fol.

Hands

Italian script (Pächt and Alexander i. 338)

Decoration

Good borders, e.g. fol. 106r

Good initials, e.g. fol. 106r

Binding

16th century or 17th century, Italian?: pasteboards; dark brown leather, very worn, decorated with blind lines, gilt lines and corner-pieces; gilt centrepiece on back cover with a crowned monogram ‘MRA’ (? for Maria, B. V. M.) surrounded by fleurs-de-lis, front cover probably similar but worn away; spine tooled with gilt lines and one small circular tool; traces of two lost fore-edge clasps or pairs of ties; edges gilt, partly gauffered, the illuminated borders severely trimmed

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

A Calendar, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 36

Summary

A Calendar (fol. 2), Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 14), 'Vigilie Mortuorum' (fol. 39), 'Officium de Sancta Cruce' (fol. 98), 'Officium de Sancto Spiritu' (fol. 106), etc.

Of the Hours of the Virgin 'secundum usum Romane Curie', which were once in the volume, only the first leaf is preserved, prefixed to the Calendar. The Calendar is Flemish, which agrees with the writing and illumination: St. Nicholas of Tolentino (canonized 1446) is in the Litany.

Date

Written in the second half of the 15th cent. in Flanders (?)

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with illuminated borders, etc., imperfect

Physical extent

124 Leaves