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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 187

Summary Catalogue no.: 18768

Contents

Aristotle, Ethics (tr. Leonardo Bruni .
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i+ 107 + ii fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 172 mm.

Layout

1 col., 29 lines, 175 × 100 mm.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script attributable to Domenico di Niccolò Pollini . (Pächt and Alexander ii. 218

Decoration

Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 218, pl. XIX)

Binding

15th century, second quarter, Italian, Florence (as MS.): wood boards; reddish-brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, dots and strapwork to form an eight-point star as centrepiece (Islamic influence?), and spine cross-hatched with double lines and dots in diaper pattern; remnants of two clasps with lost straps of blue patterned fabric; edges plain, trace of ink title. 268 × 178 × c. 33–36 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 1434 ; Italian, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

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). Extent, dimensions and layout from Watson (1984). 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)
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 193
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321

Digital Images

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, III no. 3022 (under Florence)
    Anthony Hobson, Humanists and bookbinders: the origins and diffusion of the humanistic bookbinding 1459–1559 …, Cambridge 1989, p. 19 and n. 23.

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 178

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.