MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 263
Summary Catalogue no.: 18844
Contents
, Memorabilia
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Hand(s)
Semi-humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 821)
Decoration
Initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 821)
Binding
15th century, middle, Italian (as MS.): wood boards; dark brown leather, tooled with triple blind lines in an overall pattern of originally 16 panels with diagonals (partly obscured by new spine(s)); remnants of two fore-edge clasps with lost straps of red textile; edges plain; boards severely damaged and wormed. First reback, 18th century, Italian, now preserved separately, with gilt spine of speckled brown leather and red-leather label; second reback, 1987, Bodleian. 290–292 × 207–210 × c. 50–53 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).
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.