MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 15
Summary Catalogue no.: 18907
Contents
Bible
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good historiated initials.
Other initials. Fore-edge painting, 16th century (?). (Pächt and Alexander i. 545)
Binding
18th century, second half, Italian, Venice, a standard Canonici style: pasteboards; lightish-brown diced leather, blind and gilt lines and rolls round edges, spine with gilt lines and gilt red-leather label, marbled endleaves. 148–150 × 104 × c. 80 mm. (book closed).
Traces of previous binding(s): edges painted with red and green swirls, ?16th century, with ghosts of two broad straps; front flyleaf (fol. 1) shows marks of two clasps and (probably) four corner-bosses.
History
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966). Binding: B. C. Barker-Benfield, Bookbindings of Canonici manuscripts : a survey of early and non-standard bindings, mostly Italian, in the Canonici collection of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Oxford, privately printed, 2020)
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04-02: Binding description added.