MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 151
Summary Catalogue no.: 18732
Physical Description
Composite: fols. 1–87 || 88–171
Binding
15th century, after 1473, Italian, combining the two parts: wood boards, narrow inside bevel; brown leather, blind-tooled with lines and strapwork; remnants of two clasps with dark-red textile straps (lost) and of four bosses on each cover (partly extant); edges gilt, gauffered; back paste-down from a Latin grammatical MS., ?14th century, Italian. Spine crudely overlaid with paper, 17th or 18th century, Italian. 220–222 × c. 120 × c. 40 mm. (book closed).
History
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 151 – Part 1
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
History
Origin: 1473
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 151 – Part 2
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
History
Origin: 15th century
Additional Information
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). 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 added.