Diurnal (Benedictine) — c. 1460–1480; Italian, Florence (?)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 224
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Description
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Title
Diurnal (Benedictine) — c. 1460–1480; Italian, Florence (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 224
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian, Florence (?)
Date
c. 1460–1480
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Decoration
Good borders.
Good historiated initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 312)
Binding
16th century, Italian, a rebinding perhaps for the Benedictine abbey of San Sisto, Piacenza (see fol. 350r): wood boards, rounded corners; polished dark brown leather, tooled with blind lines and (worn) gilt stamps to form a circular centrepiece within a panel; cross-hatching on spine; two fore-edge clasps, the upper retaining its brown leather strap and metal tip; paste-downs (now lifted) made from two small fragments of one leaf from a manuscript of Widukind, Res gestae saxonicae (Bk I, cap. 8) in Caroline minuscule, late 10th or 11th century, hooked around a quire of added paper flyleaves at each end; edges stained red. A miniature book, 95 69–70 c. 46 (book closed).
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Title
A Benedictine Diurnal 'secundum consuetudinem monachorum de obseruantia sancte Iustine ordinis sancti Benedicti'
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 224
Summary
A Benedictine Diurnal 'secundum consuetudinem monachorum de obseruantia sancte Iustine ordinis sancti Benedicti', containing:
A Calendar (fol. 6: Jan.-Feb., July-Oct. lost)
List of Antiphons (fol. 9)
Proprium de Tempore (fol. 13)
Psalter (fol. 93)
Hymnal (fol. 198v)
'Proprium Sanctorum' (fol. 217)
'Commune Sanctorum' (fol. 278v)
minor offices (fol. 323)
Soon after the book was written the Calendar was altered to suit the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter at Perugia (fol. 18v, 'Istud diurnum est monachorum congregationis sancte Iustine ordinis sancti Benedicti de obseruantia ... sancti Petri de Perusio ...'). The fly-leaves contain in two pieces most of a leaf of a 12th cent. Latin historical piece.
Date
Written early in the 15th century in Italy
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with illuminated borders, capitals, etc., binding, stamped leather on boards, with clasp, contemporary Italian work
Physical extent
353 Leaves
Custodial history
In the 16th cent. the book was connected with the church of St. Sixtus at Piacenza (fol. 350 'Ad vsum S. Marci profess [?] S. Sixti in Placentia').
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
A Benedictine Diurnal 'secundum consuetudinem monachorum de obseruantia sancte Iustine ordinis sancti Benedicti'
