MS. Canon. Ital. 33
Summary Catalogue no.: 20085
Contents
, Lo Specchio della Croce
Language(s): Italian (Venetian dialect)
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS, dated 1443, ?Venice): wood boards, flush with text-block; brown leather, blind-tooled with triple lines; remains of two clasps, with lost straps of ?red tawed leather running to extant trefoil-shaped catch-plates of flat brass; 4+1 bosses on each cover, all lost (central boss had a small flower shape with six petals). Rebacked, 18th century, Italian, in shiny speckled brown leather with gilt spine and red-leather label. 290–294 × 213–217 × c. 43–47 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).
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 216
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-06: Revised origin with reference to Watson.