Portable festive and votive missal, Use of Rome — 15th century, first half; Italian, perhaps Siena or Volterra

Title

Portable festive and votive missal, Use of Rome — 15th century, first half; Italian, perhaps Siena or Volterra

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 290

Place of origin

Italian, perhaps Siena or Volterra

Date

15th century, first half

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

vii + 82 + xi fol. A paper leaf instead of the missing parchm. leaf is after fol. 35, the last 10 fol. being blank fragments.

Provenance

In the litany (fol. 76v) are St. Justus, the companion of St. Clement, who was especially venerated at Volterra, and St. Ansanus, the patron saint of Siena. Though St. Francis does not occur in the litany, his name was left in the collect Satisfaciat (79).

Title

Part of a Roman Missal

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 290

Summary

Part of a Roman Missal, consisting of:

Part of the Proprium Sanctorum, beginning in the Mass for St. John the Evangelist's day (fol. 1)

The Ordinary and Canon of the Mass, each wanting its first leaf (fols. 31, 36)

'Commune Sanctorum' (fol. 40)

Votive masses (fol. 53v)

Benedictions (fol. 69v), and smaller offices' secundum consuetudinem Romane Curie

There are some later additions.

Date

Written in the 15th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment

Physical extent

94 Leaves