Breviary (Franciscan) — 1478; Italian
MS. Canon. Liturg. 211
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Breviary (Franciscan) — 1478; Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 211
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian
Date
1478
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
282 fols.
Binding
16th century, Italian, a rebinding done perhaps after the loss of the first 200 leaves: wood boards, narrow inside bevel; dark brown leather, tooled on each cover with blind lines and stamps, gilt flower-stamps, and a small gilt centrepiece of the ‘yh’s’ monogram in a circle; spine lost; remnants of two fore-edge clasps with lost straps of brown leather over lighter cores; edges gilt, possibly gauffered (very worn). Rebacked in brown leather for Bodleian, late 19th or 20th century, after the restoration of the shelfmark MSS. Canon Liturg. in 1887. 151 c. 108 c. 52–55 (book closed).
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Title
A Franciscan Breviary
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 211
Summary
A Franciscan Breviary, consisting of:
Part of the Proprium de Tempore (from the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost, the first 200 leaves being lost, fol. 1)
'Incipiunt Psalmista', the Psalter (fol. 29)
Hymns (fol. 94)
'Secunda pars breuiarii, siue de festiuitatibus secundum morem Romane ecclesie' (fol. 99)
'Commune Sanctorum' (fol. 235) with smaller offices (fol. 202v)
Fols. 1-99 are fols. 201-99 of an old foliation
Two leaves are wanting after fol. 218, and several margins have been cut off
Date
Written in 1478 in Italy
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, in double columns, binding (sides only), stamped leather on boards, imperfect
Physical extent
284 Leaves
Custodial history
At end 'Explicit Breuiarium secundum morem morem Romane Curie: anno Domini m. ccccl. xxviij. mensis Setembris die primo.'
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
A Franciscan Breviary
