MS. Canon. Liturg. 28
Summary Catalogue no.: 19239
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS.): wood boards with narrow inside bevel, each board half-broken away; formerly covered with brown leather (lost), either full or possibly quarter-style; sewn on two straps of tawed leather, the lower partly replaced with tanned leather; evidence of any clasp(s) lost; text-block shows severe mould damage. Repaired, outer halves of boards replaced with new wood, 20th century, Bodleian. 108 × 77–78 × c. 9 mm. (book closed).
History
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). 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).
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2020-07-24: Binding description added.