MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 86
Summary Catalogue no.: 18979
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
16th century, late, or early 17th century, Italian: a limp, unstiffened parchment wrapper with a flap at lower fore-edge and remains of a long central tie of white tawed leather; quires sewn on brown tanned leather cords through two external spine-strengtheners of brown leather; undecorated. 310 × 207–211 × c. 27 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). Correction of compiler(?)'s name, and redating of manuscript by Bruce-Barker Benfield, 2018. 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: Binding description revised.