MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 235
Summary Catalogue no.: 18816
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century, Northern European?: wood boards almost flush with textblock, curved outside bevel; red tawed leather with blind triple lines making a pattern with lost bosses (three at each edge and one central); corners protected at edges with metal studs, mostly extant; remains of two nailed clasps with lost textile straps; edges plain, title in ink at lower edge. 238–239 × 173 × c. 35–38 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)
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.