Private prayers, hymns, etc. — 15th century; Italian (?)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 25
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Private prayers, hymns, etc. — 15th century; Italian (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 25
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian (?)
Date
15th century
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
221 fol.
Binding
16th century, late, or 17th century, Italian: pasteboards; brown leather, tooled with blind lines and all-over gilt lines and stamps (? including a roll) to form a panel and abstract centrepieces; spine decorated with cross-hatching of blind double lines and a small gilt tool; traces of two pairs of ties of dark brown textile (lost); edges gilt, gauffered (very worn, perhaps from a previous binding). Rebacked in lighter leather, spine re-laid, perhaps later 19th century, Bodleian. 106 80–82 c. 45 (book closed).
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Title
Private prayers, hymns, etc.
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 25
Summary
Private prayers, hymns, etc., including:
'Versus compilati a magistro Johanne Pizano ... de ordine Fratrum Minorum ...' beg. 'Et ego quid demerui', fol. 30v)
special offices of Stt. Liberata and Faustina (fol. 136)
the Psalterium minus or breviatum of St. Jerome (fol. 141)
'Officium de Sancto Spiritu' (fol. 174v)
'... Exercitium ... de centum doloribus Cristi et matris eius' (fol. 178v), etc.
A leaf is lost at beginning and after fol. 143. Stt. Liberata and Faustina point to Como.
Date
Written in the 15th century at Como (?)
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment
Physical extent
221 Leaves
Custodial history
On fol. 139v are some names of the Cerra family (?) as owners, about A.D. 1600.
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
Private prayers, hymns, etc.
