MS. Canon. Ital. 144
Summary Catalogue no.: 20196
Contents
Portolan
Language(s): Italian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
16th century, Italian (as MS., 1538?, Venice): wood boards; dark red leather with blind and gilt lines, small gilt stamps, and centrepieces formed by two interlocking gilt squares (nothing within); traces of four clasps, all fittings lost; plain original spine, later repaired at the Bodleian with fabric down inner joints. 447–54 × 307–8 × c. 16–22 mm. (book closed). Cf. MS. Canon. Ital. 142 (smaller format).
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).
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-21: Binding description added.