MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 54
Summary Catalogue no.: 18635
Contents
Commentary on Virgil
, Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
18th century (or possibly earlier, but probably an archaizing binding), Italian: wood boards left bare; light brown quarter-leather, undecorated; no clasps; deckle edges of paper text-block untrimmed. Fol. [331] was perhaps the paste-down of a previous binding. 236–239 × 159–160 × c. 75 mm. (book closed).
History
Origin: 15th century, last third
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.