MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 169
Summary Catalogue no.: 18750
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century third quarter, Italian, Venice? (as MS.): wood boards; dark brown leather blind-tooled with lines and strapwork, spine cross-hatched with blind triple lines; remains of two clasps with straps of red tawed leather (lost) and trefoil-shaped catch-plates. 206–207 × c. 140 × c. 37–39 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). 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).
Bibliography
Binding:
Tammaro de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, 3 vols., Florence 1960, III 2946 (under Naples)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.