Monastic Hours and offices for use in a Benedictine Nunnery — 1072 or 1091 × 1102; Italian, Zadar (Zara) (present-day Croatia)
MS. Canon. Liturg. 277
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Monastic Hours and offices for use in a Benedictine Nunnery — 1072 or 1091 × 1102; Italian, Zadar (Zara) (present-day Croatia)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 277
Place of origin
Italian, Zadar (Zara) (present-day Croatia)
Date
1072 or 1091 × 1102
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
154 fols.
Decoration
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials.
Musical notation
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
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Title
Monastic Hours and other offices for a Benedictine nunnery
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 277
Summary
Monastic Hours and other offices for a Benedictine nunnery, with additions, the chief parts of which are:
A calendar (fol. 4)
'...Orationes ad sanctam Crucem adorandam' (fol. 20)
Hours of the Trinity (fol. 26)
Hours of the Virgin (fol. 58, cf. 88: the first leaf lost)
Suffrages at the end of Lauds (fol. 65v)
Hours possibly (Mr. Frere suggests) of the Angels (fol. 106)
Prayers (fol. 134), etc
The handwriting is Lombardic. Among the additions (generally within the 12th cent.) are many obits in the calendar (e.g. Adilberga, Apr. 16: Dabrus abb., Apr. 25: 'Obitus Altasie ysoris [uxoris] Petri de Barce', July 10: Pribiza monacha, July 23), 'Visio beatj Pauli apostoli' beg. 'Oportet nos, fratres karissimi', about purgatory: fol. 147v), a hymn written before the 'Visio', beginning 'Letabunda ac iocunda facie | Huniuersus populus Dalmacie | Quas Rosata abbatissa ad honorem semper candens splendide..', (fol. 150v).
Musical notes occur in the additions. Leaves are lost after fols. 57, 87, 88, 90, 105, 146.
Date
Written in the 11th century in Dalmatia
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with small miniatures, illuminated capitals, etc.
Physical extent
157 Leaves
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
Monastic Hours and other offices for a Benedictine nunnery
