MS. Canon. Gr. 49
Summary Catalogue no.: 18502
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
15th century, Greek (as MS., of which the contributing scribe/author Theodorus Agallianus died c. 1474): thick wood boards, square-cut almost flush with text-block; dark brown leather with blind lines and stamps forming four criss-cross panels; traces of two lost straps of plaited leather running from back cover to front; endbands built up into ‘shoulders’ in Greek style; original spine re-laid onto modern reback, 20th century, Bodleian. 221–223 (or, with shoulder extensions, 231) × 140–143 × c. 50–57 mm. (book closed).
History
Origin: 15th century
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
Printed descriptions:
Ernst Gamillscheg & Dieter Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten, 800–1600, Teil 1, Handschriften aus Bibliotheken Grossbritanniens, A. Verzeichnis der Kopisten (Vienna 1981), p. 83 no. 126
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.