MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 32
Summary Catalogue no.: 18613
Contents
, De natura rerum
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century third quarter, Italian (as MS.): wood boards; reddish-brown leather with blind strapwork tooling and groups of lighter (?painted) punched spots; spine cross-hatched with blind triple lines; gilt gauffered edges; remnants of four clasps with patterned green textile straps, mostly lost. Condition poor, but mostly unrestored. c. 224 × 143 × c. 36–38 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). Binding and revised date and localization of MS.: 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, date and localization revised.