Rubricated portable diurnal (Dominican), Calendar, Temporale, Common of the dedication, Sanctorale, Common of the saints, Commemorations of Our Lady, Votive office of Corpus Christi, Votive office of St Dominic, Votive office of the Virgin, Gradual Psalms, Office of Our Lady, Fragment of the Office of the dead, Ferial psalter — 15th century, third quarter; Italy, Venice

Title

Rubricated portable diurnal (Dominican), Calendar, Temporale, Common of the dedication, Sanctorale, Common of the saints, Commemorations of Our Lady, Votive office of Corpus Christi, Votive office of St Dominic, Votive office of the Virgin, Gradual Psalms, Office of Our Lady, Fragment of the Office of the dead, Ferial psalter — 15th century, third quarter; Italy, Venice

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 212

Associated place

Venice

Italy

Place of origin

Italy, Venice

Date

15th century, third quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

iii + x + 240 + iii leaves

Decoration

Good initials on fols 11–179

Binding

16th century, first half, Italy, Venice(incorporating 16th-century additions for the Dominican nuns of Corpus Domini, Venice): wood boards, narrow inside bevel; reddish-brown leather, with blind lines and gilt tooling, stamps including a winged cherub’s head and stars, to form on each cover an elaborate panel and circular frame for the ‘yh’s’ centrepiece; spine tooled with horizontal and diagonal lines in blind and gilt; traces of two clasps with leather straps, roughly torn away (since 1897?); edges gilt, gauffered

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Dominican nuns of Corpus Domini, Venice(dedication of church, 12 July, in added calendar of sacc. XVI, fols. 1-10). Cf. MS. Canon. Liturg. 247

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

A Dominican Breviary

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 212

Summary

A Dominican Breviary, without Lauds, consisting of:

A Proprium de Tempore (fol. 11)

Proprium Sanctorum (fol. 78)

Commune Sanctorum (fol. 151) with smaller offices (fol. 159v) imperf. at end

This, which is of the 15th cent., has been supplemented by a Calendar with French admixture (?: fol. 1) and a Psalter (fol. 180) with Litany, written in the 16th cent. At July 12 is 'Anniuersarium dedications ecclesie', and St. Denis is a 'totum duplex' on Oct. 9.

Two leaves are gone after fol. 224

Date

Written in the 15th and 16th century in Italy (?)

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment

Binding, leather on boards, with gold tooling, 16th cent., Italian, with clasps

Physical extent

243 Leaves