MS. Canon. Gr. 41
Summary Catalogue no.: 18494
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
A composite binding of medieval boards covered with late leather.
15th century ?, Greek (as MS.?); thick wood boards, cut flush with the text-block, no bevel.
19th century, second half, for Bodleian: covering of polished black or blue-black leather, undecorated except for blind lines round edges, gilt title and Bodleian shelfmark on spine; heavy paper-repairs throughout textblock. 228–229 × 145–148 × c. 68–69 mm. (book closed).
History
Origin: 15th century, beginning
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).
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.