MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 100
Summary Catalogue no.: 18681
Contents
, Comedies
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine border.
Historiated initials.
Other initials. Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 406, pl. XXXIX) fol. 3v
- Type initial V
- Subject Profile portrait of the author.
- Type full border
- Subject Interlaced stems, putti, wreath, left blank to be filled with a coat of arms.
Binding
15th century, third quarter, Italian (as MS.): wood boards, narrow inside bevel; brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, stamps and strapwork; remnants of two clasps with lost red textile straps; gilt gauffered edges (very worn). Added gilt papal armorial centrepieces of Clement VIII (1592–1605). Rebacked, 18th century, Italian, with gilt lines, floral stamps and green leather label. 272–273 × 185–188 × c. 31–32 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). Additional description of decoration by Elizabeth Solopova, c. 2000. 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 (2 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.