MS. Canon. Gr. 91
Summary Catalogue no.: 18544
Contents
, Menologion for October
Language(s): Greek
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Hutter iii. 84:
Ornamental strips at the beginnings of Lives.
Decorated initials at the beginnings of Lives.
Binding
18th century, second half, Italian, for Canonici, mostly a standard style: boards unusually each in two layers of pasteboard (outer) and wood (inner); diced brown leather, tooled on each cover with blind lines and rolls to form a central panel filled with slanting lines; spine with gilt lines and red-leather title-label, with gilt lettering on both label and spine; marbled paste-downs. 367 × 255–259 × c. 86–90 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). Decoration, localization and date follow Hutter. 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
Irmgard Hutter, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften, I-III, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 3 vols. in 4 (Stuttgart, 1977–82), iii, 84 [Internet Archive]
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-04: Binding description added.