MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 167
Summary Catalogue no.: 18748
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine borders.
Initials. Humanistic script attributable to Pierantonio Sallando of Reggio . (Pächt and Alexander ii. 669, pl. LXIV)
Binding
15th century, end, Italian, Bologna (as MS.): wood boards, inside bevel; dark brown leather with large gilt-tooled panels edged by blind lines (also on inside bevels) and strapwork; gilt gauffered edges; spine and two clasps or sets of ties lost. Rebacked, 18th century, Italian. 214–215 × 131–132 × c. 23–25 mm. (book closed). Cf. MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 168.
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). 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 (3 images from 35mm slides)
Digital Bodleian (1 image of binding from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Binding:
Tammaro de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, 3 vols., Florence 1960, II no. 1406 C, Tav. A11 (under Bologna).
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.