Texts pricipally to be read at the chapter office of Prime; Italian (Rome?), early 13th cent.

Title

Texts pricipally to be read at the chapter office of Prime; Italian (Rome?), early 13th cent.

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. liturg. d. 43

Place of origin

Italian, Rome (?)

Date

13th century, early (with additions, 13th-14th cent.)

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 87 leaves (fol.i, 87 are later paper flyleaves)

Decoration

Penwork initials. Red initials flourished in red or (occasionally) brown.

Two added coats of arms in brown ink (fol. 86v)

Binding

17th cent. Italian plain parchment binding, sewn on five cords; the spine apparently formerly with two title-pieces lettered 'REGVLA | S. | BENEDIC || MS. P. | SÆVLI [sic] | XIII', with the vestiges of Archinto's prined label, reported to have read '[LV]I', with 'S' or '5' inscribed below in pencil.

Acquisition

Given by his executors in 1973

Provenance

Form of oath not to alienate possessions of the Cluniac monastery of SS. Andrew & Saba (i.e. S. Saba, Monte Avetino, Rome) (fol. 48r)

Count Carlo Archinto (1669–1732) (see Carlo Frati, Dizionario Bio-Bibliografico dei Bibliotecari e Bibliofili Italiani dal Sec. XIV al XIX, Florence, 1933, 32–3 [Bod. BDH=R. 5. 447/1] and Marino Parenti, Aggiunte al Dizionari Bio-Bibliografico dei Bibliotecari e Bibliofili Italiani di Carlo Frati, 3 vols., Florence, 1952–60, 1, pp. 46, 49), (bookplate with legend 'ARCHINTEA LAUS') whose library was sold at Paris, 21 March 1863

Messrs. Boone (who bought a considerable number of Archinto MSS.), with their pencil price-code (lower pastedown).

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), MS. 24275, sold at Sotheby's 1 Dec. 1947, lot 83, bought by Quaritch for £48

Francis Wormald