MS. Canon. Ital. 222
Summary Catalogue no.: 20274
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
18th century ?, Italian, perhaps all a re-creation of the late medieval quarter-binding style: wood boards with narrow inside bevel; brown leather stretching nearly halfway across each bare board (no nails), the spine cross-hatched with blind single lines, the sides tooled with blind quadruple lines in four panels; two fore-edge clasps with brown leather straps, running to shaped brass catch-plates on back cover with simple engraved patterns. 222 × 143 × c. 18–20 mm. (book closed). Comparable but not identical to bindings of MSS. Canon. Ital. 27, 96, and 129.
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.