MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 245
Summary Catalogue no.: 18826
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Hand(s)
Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 410)
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 410)
Binding
15th century, third quarter, Italian (as MS.): wood boards with curved outside bevel; dark brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, punches and strapwork to form an eight-pointed star as centrepiece (Islamic influence?); four star-shaped bosses on each cover; two clasps with leather straps partly surviving after repairs; edges gilt and ?gauffered (very worn); remains of paper label on back cover. Extensive 20th-century repairs, spine re-laid. 228–229 × 135 × c. 25 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.