MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 79
Summary Catalogue no.: 18972
Contents
Bible
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good historiated initials.
Other initials.
Seven leaves with good border and initials added in Italy, c. 1300, fols. 182r-188v. (Pächt and Alexander i. 523)
Binding
15th century?, Italian: wood boards with narrow inside bevel, 15th-century additions on paste-downs; covering of plain red velvet, very worn, spine lost, re-laid onto modern velvet; traces of two lost strap-and-pin fastenings, running from front cover to centre back; edges possibly gilt, no traces of gauffering. Repaired 19th/20th century, Bodleian. 197 × 134 × c. 76–81 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 (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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.