MS. Canon. Gr. 55
Summary Catalogue no.: 18508
Contents
works
, Language(s): Greek
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
18th century, second half, Italian, for Canonici, a standard archaizing style: wood boards; diced brown leather, blind-tooled with lines and rolls in two frames around a blank diamond; spine with gilt lines and red-leather label. 294–295 × 218–220 × c. 110–115 mm. (book closed).
Remnants of a prior intermediate binding, 15th or 16th century, Italian: edges painted with prominent red rings linked with smaller design-elements; flyleaves cut from fine 15th-century Italian parchment ruled (but blank) for a larger book.
History
Origin: 12th 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).
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.