Missal; Austria, mid-15th century
MS. Canon. Liturg. 334
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Missal; Austria, mid-15th century
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 334
Associated place
Austrian
Place of origin
German
Austria(watermarks)
Southern Germany (Franconia?)
Date
c. 1445–1455
c. 1200–20
c. 1440–50
Language
German
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper. Principal watermark, Anvil in circle; Briquet 5958, attested in Gurck 1446, variants Bruck a.d. Mur 1452 etc.; WZMA AT5000-RB25_1_209, attested 1452–4 [www.oeaw.ac.at/ksbm/wz/index.htm, accessed 16 Apr. 2004]).
Physical extent
1 + 1 + 57 + 1 + 2 fol.
Hands
Hybrida by one hand.
Decoration
Coloured red initials of 1–3 lines; for woodcut, fol. 3v, see below.
Binding
15th century, mid, Austrian (as MS.): wood boards, steep outside bevel, large squares; shiny red tawed leather with delaminating tears, undecorated, spine plain; traces of central fore-edge clasp with lost strap of thick tawed leather running from back cover to front, and of 4+1 circular bosses on each cover, all lost; edges plain; two early bookmarks, one tipped with red leather. Paper paste-downs added when the original paste-downs were lifted, late 19th or early 20th century, Bodleian. 232–234 157 c. 27–32 (book closed).
Provenance
'Hoc missale fuit quondam ad usum ecclesie parochialis S. Martini super Villacum' [Villach, St Martin, rather than Obervellach, as in Flotzinger], 17th cent., inside of fly leaf fol. ii verso.
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Title
The Ordinary and Canon of the Mass
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 334
Summary
The Ordinary and Canon of the Mass, followed by select Masses. At fol. 3v is an old 15th cent. print of the Crucifixion, coloured. Fols, i, 59-60 are fragments of a German 13th cent. medical treatise (e. g.' Ist daz harn rot un einteil gemischit mit der swerze. daz bedutet daz div lungil zeheil ist').
Date
Written in the second half of the 15th century in Carinthia (?)
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On paper, binding, red leather on boards, bosses and clasp lost (contemporary)
Physical extent
60 Leaves
Custodial history
'Hoc Missale fuit quondam ad usum ecclesie parochialis S. Martini supra Villacum' (Villach in Carinthia: 17th cent. note).
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
The Ordinary and Canon of the Mass
