Missal, Franciscan — c. 1400; Flemish

Title

Missal, Franciscan — c. 1400; Flemish

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 389

Associated place

Italy

Italian

Place of origin

Flemish

Date

c. 1400

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 237 + ii fol., a leaf torn out before the canon (after fol. 107)

Decoration

Fine borders.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 302, pl. XXIV)

Musical notation

Square notation on 10 staves of 4 red lines.

Binding

An early binding, covered over in the 18th century but disinterred in 1919 and further repaired in 1948:

15th century, later, or early 16th century, Italian: wood boards, inside bevel; sewn on seven double cords of tawed leather; dark brown leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines, stamps and strapwork to form on each cover a panel with a central strapwork cross on a base; spine lost; traces of four clasps with broad straps, all lost; edges gilt, gauffered.

(Temporary rebinding) 18th century, Italian: probably a half-leather binding (any new leather since lost), with sides of red paper with a combed pattern (cf. MS. Canon. Gr. 54), overlaying the old leather.

(Restoration) 20th century, 1919, Bodleian: ‘The coloured sheets now inserted as fly-leaves were pasted over the original leather binding. They were taken off on April 16, 1919. | R.H.H[ill] | 17.IV.19.’ (added slip at front). Rebacked then or more likely in 1948, preserving 18th-century title-label.

(Further repairs) 20th century, 1948, Bodleian: signed at lower inside edge of back board ‘L.F[ifield]. 20.4.’48’. 403–405 294–295 c. 100–104 (book closed).

Provenance

In the kalendar the feast of St. Blaise (3 February) is in red.

Folios added in Italy, 15th cent.

Title

'...Ordo Missalis secundum usum Romane curie'

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 389

Summary

'...Ordo Missalis secundum usum Romane curie', Franciscan Missal, preceded by a calendar: the Ordinary of the Mass begins on fol. 102, and the Canon at fol. 108 (a leaf preceding having been cut out). There are musical notes.

Date

Written in the first half of the 15th century in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, in double columns, with some small miniatures, borders, and capitals

Physical extent

237 Leaves