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MS. Canon. Ital. 271

Summary Catalogue no.: 20323

Contents

1.
Johannes Climacus, Scala paradisi (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian
2.
Johannes Climacus, Sermo ad pastorem (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian
3.
Daniel Raithenus, Vita S. Johannis Climaci (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian
4.
Isaac Syrus, De contemptu mundi (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Binding

15th century, Italian (as MS.): thick wood boards, square-cut flush with text-block; reddish-brown leather with blind lines linking 8+4+1 small circular bosses (all lost) and forming four panels on each cover; remnants of a single fore-edge clasp with blue textile strap (lost). Crude reback in similar leather, 18th century?, obscuring the original leather and the inner three boss-stations. 288–290 × 207–208 × c. 65–68 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 244
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 418

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-07-21: Binding description added.