MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 31
Summary Catalogue no.: 18612
Contents
, Elegies
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine borders.
Historiated initials.
Other initials.
By Monte or Gherardo di Giovanni di Miniato (del Fora) and workshop. Humanistic script attributable to Antonio Sinibaldi . (P&A ii. 331, pl. XXXI) fol. 1r
- Type initial C
- Subject Portrait of the author, holding a book.
- Type border, upper, left and lower margins
- Subject Grotesques, folliage and flowers. At the bottom of the page two hybrid figures support Medici arms.
Binding
15th century, end, Italian, Florence (as MS.): wood boards with narrow inside bevel; dark red leather with blind and gilt strapwork tooling; gilt gauffered edges; pink endbands; four lost clasps. A high-quality binding, in unrestored condition. 267-268 × 157-158 × c. 35-37 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). Additional description of decoration by Elizabeth Solopova, c. 2000. 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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (7 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.