Book of Hours for private use (?), Passional — 15th century; Italy
MS. Canon. Liturg. 318
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Book of Hours for private use (?), Passional — 15th century; Italy
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 318
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italy
Date
15th century
12th century
Language
Latin
Italian
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
60leaves
Binding
15th century, Italian(as MS.): wood boards with inside bevel, rounded corners; brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, stamps and strapwork to form on each cover a panel around a large strapwork cross on a base (very worn); spine plain; single central clasp, extant, with a strap of thick tawed? leather and brass tip, running to a flat trefoil-shaped brass catch-plate on lower cover; edges plain; front paste-down (lifted) and flyleaf from a 12th-century Latin Passional; lower paste-down (and flyleaf?) from the same manuscript, but now missing
Acquisition
Bought by the Bodleian Library in 1817 from Giovanni Perissinotti. On the purchase, see Digital Bodleian
Provenance
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
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Title
'...Officium beate Marie, dicendum cum quindecim antiphonis, psalmis ["spis"] & orationibus infrascriptis & cum sanctis suis sexaginta nominibus & letanijs'
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 318
Summary
'...Officium beate Marie, dicendum cum quindecim antiphonis, psalmis ["spis"] & orationibus infrascriptis & cum sanctis suis sexaginta nominibus & letanijs': many prayers are added (some Italian) and St. Bernard's Verses ('Illumina oculos', etc.).
The Office is not the ordinary Hours, but a form for private use (?). The fly-leaves at beginning are part of a 12th cent. Life of St. Barbara.
Date
Written in the 15th century in Italy
Language
Latin
Italian
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
60 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
'...Officium beate Marie, dicendum cum quindecim antiphonis, psalmis ["spis"] & orationibus infrascriptis & cum sanctis suis sexaginta nominibus & letanijs'
