MS. Canon. Gr. 116
Summary Catalogue no.: 18569
Contents
Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Language(s): Greek
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
16th century, Italian (as MS., by an Italian scribe, Venice 1518): wood boards, fairly thick, with partial inside bevel leaving corners proud; brown leather, blind tooling forming a large central panel of criss-crossed lines with interlace border, and an outer edge of alternating blind and gilt stamps; spine cross-hatched with blind lines; remnants of two lost clasps running from front cover to back; gilt gauffered edges, very worn. Repaired, May 1953, Bodleian: spine re-laid on modern leather. 118–119 × 82–83 × c. 30–31 mm. (book closed).
History
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars prima recensionem codicum Graecorum continens, Quarto Catalogues I, 1883, repr. with corrections 1969). 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).
Bibliography
Ernst Gamillscheg & Dieter Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten, 800–1600, Teil 1, Handschriften aus Bibliotheken Grossbritanniens, A. Verzeichnis der Kopisten (Vienna 1981), p. 47 no. 40 (‘Bernardus Felicianus’)
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.