MS. Canon. Ital. 118
Summary Catalogue no.: 20170
Contents
Epistolary
Language(s): Italian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
15th century, second half, Italian (as MS.): wood boards; dark reddish-brown leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines, stamps and strapwork; traces of four clasps with leather straps and of 4+1 circular bosses on each board, all now lost; edges plain; spine lost, rebacked with two layers of parchment, perhaps in successive treatments, 18th century?, Italian, and mid 19th century?, Bodleian . 340–343 × 235–240 × c. 67–70 mm. (book closed).
History
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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970). 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:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 139
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-21: Binding description added.