MS. Canon. Liturg. 271

Binding

16th century, late, or 17th century, Italian: thin pasteboards; dark red leather, tooled with some blind lines but mostly gilt lines, stamps and a roll, framing centrepieces of the Virgin Mary on a crescent moon (front cover) or of a male saint in clerical robes (back); spine gilt, no title or label; two small clasps present at fore-edge, with brown leather straps and metal tips; edges gilt, gauffered. 153–155 × 103 × c. 20 mm. (book closed). The manuscript was probably made for the Garegnano Charterhouse, Milan, dedicated to St. Ambrose who might therefore be the saint on back cover.