Book of Hours (Augustinian (?)) — c. 1420; Italian, Venice
MS. Canon. Liturg. 246
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Book of Hours (Augustinian (?)) — c. 1420; Italian, Venice
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 246
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian, Venice
Date
c. 1420
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + i + 379 + 1 + i fol.
Decoration
Good historiated and other borders.
Initials (rubbed). By, or related to the style of, Cristoforo Cortese. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 452)
Binding
15th century, Italian (perhaps as MS., made for a nun named Barbara, fol. 140r-v): wood boards with inside bevel; dark brown leather blind-tooled with triple lines, stamps and strapwork; original spine lost; remains of three clasps, with red textile straps (all lost, but one replaced at the fore-edge with a modern leather strap, its metal tip presumably original) and with prominent surviving nails on front cover and shaped catch-plates on back, each with a different but complementary pattern; edges plain. Added paste-downs and flyleaves of carta bassanese, 18th century, Italian; rebacked 1954, Bodleian. The single strap recorded by the Summary Catalogue in 1897 was perhaps the original red textile, to be replaced with new leather in 1954. 103–104 72–74 c. 56–57 (book closed).
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Title
'...Offitium beate Marie Virginis'
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 246
Summary
'...Offitium beate Marie Virginis' according to the use of Rome, followed by:
A Litany of the Virgin (fol. 134v)
'Offitium Passionis Domini nostri Ihesu Christi secundum formam Romane Curie', Hours of the Cross (fol. 141)
Penitential Psalms with Litany (fol. 151)
Prayers, the 5 'Gaudia beate Virginis' (fol. 211)
'Offitium defunctorum' (fol. 219)
'Missa de beata Maria Virgine' (fol. 289)
'Offitium Passionis ... Yhesu Christi' (fol. 309) with a few later additions
An Italian rubric is at fol. 357
Stt. Prosdocimus and Justina in the Litany point to Padua
Date
Written in the second half of the 15th century in Italy
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with small miniatures, borders, etc., binding, stamped leather on boards, contemporary Italian work, with clasp
Physical extent
381 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
'...Offitium beate Marie Virginis'
