MS. Canon. Ital. 180

Binding

16th century, Italian: limp parchment wrapper made from a manuscript fragment (Albertus Magnus, Isagoge in libros physicorum, pt. I, ix-xi, xii, late 13th or earlier 14th century), folded over stiffenings from another parchment manuscript (Horace, De arte poetica, visible text showing lines 88–102, 334–343, glossed, 14th century, Italian), with four spine-liners made from illegible scraps of a third manuscript in small script. Textblock sewn on three cords of tanned leather laced into the wrapper; a single set of ties with the lower tie of soft tawed leather, upper of later string. 134–135 × 100–101 × c. 12 mm. (book closed).