MS. Canon. Ital. 270
Summary Catalogue no.: 20322
Contents
, Trattato dell'Amore de Carita
Language(s): Italian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS.): wood boards; brown leather, decorated with blind sextuple lines which form a St. Andrew’s cross in a large panel integrated with 4+1 circular bosses (lost) on each cover; remnants of two fore-edge clasps with straps of dark red textile (lost) and perhaps of a lost chain-staple near the top of the front cover’s fore-edge; spine cross-hatched by blind triple lines, with green-leather label and gilt titles added in the 18th century. Minor repairs, Bodleian. 295 × 205 × c. 61 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.