15th century, first half, Italian (as MS.): wood boards with slight cushion bevel, cut flush with the textblock and matching its rounded corners; brown leather, blind-tooled with triple lines forming a St. Andrew’s cross to link the 4+1 bosses on each cover (all lost); remnants of a single fore-edge clasp, with lost strap of similar leather over tawed-leather core; spine cross-hatched with blind lines, damaged. Repaired with new leather, 1948, Bodleian. 290 × 195–200 × c. 55 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 15th century, first half ; 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, cols. 249–50

Quarto Catalogue, col. 251

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 418