MS. Canon. Gr. 42
Summary Catalogue no.: 18495
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
15th century, ? by or around 1456 (the date of the ex libris of Pietro and Donato Acciaioli on fol. 2v), Italian, ?Florence: wood boards; brown leather with blind quadruple lines and strapwork tooling, spine lost; remnants of two clasps with lost straps of green textile and of 4+1 small circular bosses on each cover, all lost; rebacked, late 19th or 20th century, with gilt title and Bodleian shelfmark. 250–252 × 161 × c. 45 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).
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.