Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, third quarter; Italian (script); Flemish (decoration)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 36
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Rome — 15th century, third quarter; Italian (script); Flemish (decoration)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 36
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian (script); Flemish (decoration)
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.
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 338)
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. 105 70–74 c. 22 (book closed).
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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
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
A Calendar, etc.
