MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 28
Summary Catalogue no.: 18609
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS.), with contemporary contents-table on front paste-down: wood boards; light brown leather with blind strapwork tooling on covers, and cross-hatching on spine with double lines and dots (no title or label); remnants of two fore-edge clasps with (lost) red fabric straps, and of four lost circular bosses on each cover; endbands oversewn with green and natural thread; titles in ink capitals around all three edges. 196–197 × 136–138 × c. 40–42 mm. (book closed).
History
Origin: 15th century
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.