MS. Canon. Ital. 147
Summary Catalogue no.: 20199
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
19th century, second half ?, for Bodleian (including extensive paper repairs), but probably imitating a previous quarter-leather style: bare wood boards with large squares and standard corners (not reflecting the textblock’s rounded corners); spine covered with red leather extending about a third across each board (no edging attachment), undecorated except for blind lines on spine around the cords; edges plain. 375 × 260–263 × c. 69 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). 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.