MS. Canon. Ital. 271
Summary Catalogue no.: 20323
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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
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.