MS. Canon. Ital. 104

Summary Catalogue no.: 20156

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Binding

18th century, Italian, in archaizing style: wood boards, square-cut but ill-fitting, left bare; plain quarter-binding of reddish-brown leather, undecorated; a 4-leaf quire of blank paper added at each end, with ‘prelate’s hat’ watermark; no clasps; edges plain; paper label with ink title on spine (cf. MSS. Canon. Ital. 27 and 95). Boards and spine show some worm-damage. 394–397 × 274–280 × c. 31–32 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (A. Mortara, Catalogo dei manoscritti italiani che sotto la denominazione di Codici Canoniciani Italici si conservano nella Biblioteca Bodleiana a Oxford, Quarto Catalogues XI, 1864). 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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 119

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 413

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-07-21: Binding description added.

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