MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 34
Summary Catalogue no.: 18926
Contents
Pauline Epistles, with gloss 'pro altercatione'
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century, late, Italian, Florence; wood boards; dark brown leather with blind and gilt strapwork tooling, including palmette and anthemion stamps; four small domed corner-bosses on each cover and two fore-edge clasps with brown leather straps, mostly extant; spine with original blind cross-hatching (quadruple lines) and added (18th-century) gilt roll and labels in red and green leather. Endleaves of parchment cannibalized from a Latin commentary on Persius, ?14th century, Italian. 295–296 × 197–198 × c. 58–60 mm. (book closed).
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 (1970). 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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image of binding from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Binding:
Tammaro de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, 3 vols., Florence 1960, III no. 2953 bis, Tav. DXIX (under Naples)
Anthony Hobson, Humanists and bookbinders: the origins and diffusion of the humanistic bookbinding 1459–1559 …, Cambridge 1989, pp. 24–5 (binding ascribed to a Florentine workshop)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.