MS. Canon. Ital. 233
Summary Catalogue no.: 20285
Contents
Aeneid (Italian translation by Andrea Lancia of the Latin prose version by Fr. Anastasio OFM )
, Language(s): Italian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
15th century?, Italian: wood boards with outside bevel, rounded corners as textblock; quarter-binding of dark brown leather stretching nearly halfway across each bare board, secured by a vertical line of 1+7+1 star-headed nails with leather edging; undecorated; remnants of one fore-edge clasp with strap of red velvet (lost), running to a trefoil-shaped catch-plate (itself a replacement?) partly surviving on the back cover. Later repairs and blank endleaves, 18th century?, Italian. 220–224 × 145–149 × c. 30 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).
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-21: Binding description added.