MS. Canon. Ital. 243
Summary Catalogue no.: 20295
Contents
, Cosmographia
Language(s): Spanish
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
16th century, Spanish (as MS., text composed 1538): wood boards, covered with plain blue velvet; remains of two clasps, the lower partly surviving with a strap of green textile (almost lost) over parchment stiffeners with a decorative metal tip; edges gilt, gauffered; headband oversewn in alternating green and pale thread, tailband lost. 233–234 × 177–178 × c. 38–39 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.