MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 16
Summary Catalogue no.: 18597
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century, end, Italian (as MS.): wood boards with rounded corners; dark brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, punches and strapwork; remnants of three clasps with dark brown textile straps, all lost; losses of spine, straps, endbands and leaves at each end, with much damp damage, perhaps from semi-immersion. Rebacked for Bodleian, later 19th century. c. 164 × 110–113 × c. 36–40 mm. (book closed).
History
Origin: 15th century, end
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.