Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Office of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, Libera me domine, Penitential Psalms, Penitential Psalms and litany, Office of the Cross, with prayers, Prayers and collects, Gradual Psalms, Quicumque, Prime outside order of the convent, Votive office for the last days of Holy week, Final antiphons of the Virgin, Office of the Holy Cross — 1497; Italy, Venice, Benedictine monastery of San Servolo, Venice( Benedictine congregation of St Giustina of Padua)

Title

Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Office of the Virgin, Office of the Dead, Libera me domine, Penitential Psalms, Penitential Psalms and litany, Office of the Cross, with prayers, Prayers and collects, Gradual Psalms, Quicumque, Prime outside order of the convent, Votive office for the last days of Holy week, Final antiphons of the Virgin, Office of the Holy Cross — 1497; Italy, Venice, Benedictine monastery of San Servolo, Venice( Benedictine congregation of St Giustina of Padua)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 241

Associated place

Italian

Venice

Place of origin

Italy, Venice, Benedictine monastery of San Servolo, Venice( Benedictine congregation of St Giustina of Padua)

Date

1497

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

197fols. A miniature book:

Hands

Written by Hieronymus de Maffeis, fol. 197v ( Pächt and Alexanderii. 592)

Decoration

Historiated borders

Historiated initials (defaced), e.g. fols 1, 73 and 114b

Parts of text in red

Binding

17th century or 18th century, Italian, Venice(manuscript from the Benedictine nunnery of San Servolo, Venice): pasteboards; brown polished leather, decorated on each cover with gilt lines and tooling around the edges and a central gilt cross on a base; remains of two fore-edge clasps with lost leather straps; gilt gauffered edges, perhaps inherited from a previous binding for which (if so) the volume was severely trimmed; spine mostly lost, but a fragment with gilt lines and leaf-tools preserved inside back cover. Rebacked in brown leather, late 19th or 20th century, by the Bodleian

Acquisition

Bought by the Bodleian Library in 1817 from Giovanni Perissinotti. On the purchase, see Digital Bodleian

Provenance

Fol.197v: Hieronymus de Maffeisscripsit hoc opus iuxta precium satis competenter. anno domini 1497. xxvij aprilis tempore quo krolus rex Francorum aggressus est: et expulsus est ex ytalia

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

'...Officium beate & gloriose Virginis Marie'

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 241

Summary

'...Officium beate & gloriose Virginis Marie' (according to the use of Rome), followed by:

'Officium in agenda Mortuorum' (fol. 73)

Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 114b)

'Officium sancte Crucis' (fol. 136) with Prayers

'Versus sancti Bernardi' (fol. 168v)

'Psalmi Graduates' (fol. 178v)

'Officium sanctissime Crucis' again (fol. 194)

Date

Written in 1497 in North Italy by Hier. de Maffeis

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with some small miniatures, borders, etc.

Physical extent

198 Leaves

Custodial history

At end 'Hieronymus de Maffeis scripsit hoc opus iuxta precium satis competenter: anno Domini 1497: xxvij Aprilis, tempore quo Karolus [viii] rex Francorum aggressus: est & expulsus est ex Ytalia.'.