MS. Canon. Ital. 181
Summary Catalogue no.: 20233
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century ?, Italian (? as MS., second half): wood boards; brown leather, now badly worn to a light-brown suede but originally darker; simple blind tooling of lines and near-strapwork, with central cross on each cover, spine plain; remnants of two clasps, with (lost) straps of blue textile; two further holes at front fore-edge but not at back, possibly for lost replacement ties; edges plain. 125–126 × 80–83 × c. 14–15 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.