MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 20
Summary Catalogue no.: 18601
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper
Binding
15th century, end, Italian (as MS.): wood boards with gentle outside bevel, left bare; quarter-binding originally of dark brown leather (lost), no nail holes; remnants of a single central clasp with a plain tawed -leather strap (lost); endbands of dark tanned leather, oversewn with pale thread, perhaps original; flyleaves of medieval documents. Rebacked in lighter leather for Bodleian, 20th century. 208 × 134–136 × c. 35 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.