MS. Canon. Ital. 35
Summary Catalogue no.: 20087
Contents
Poems
Language(s): Italian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
16th century, first half, Italian: limp parchment wrapper (? secondhand), without support or lining, extended at lower cover into a small flap; sewing-supports of two outside bands of thin tawed leather stretching across the spine over c. one third of each cover, attached with thin decorative criss-cross strips of the same tawed leather (damaged). The front cover has a row of prickings c. 15–20 mm. from the edge around all three sides and also inside at the fore-edge and lower turn-ins – possibly sewing-holes for some lost outer covering. 218–220 × 166–169 × c. 30 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.