MS. Canon. Ital. 73
Summary Catalogue no.: 20125
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper
Binding
15th century, end, Italian (as MS.): wood boards with steep inside bevel; rich brown polished leather, blind-tooled all over with lines and strapwork; spine diapered with blind triple lines and a punch, re-laid over new leather; remnants of four clasps with lost brown-leather straps; gilt gauffered edges; 18th-century label of Jacopo Soranzo on spine. Rebacked 20th century, Bodleian. 239–240 × 128–9 × c. 40 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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970). 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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Tammaro de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, 3 vols., Florence 1960, III no. 3025 (under Florence).
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-21: Binding description added.