MS. Canon. Misc. 138
Summary Catalogue no.: 19614
Contents
Lives of SS. Protus, Hyacinthus, and Eugenia
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS.): wood boards, cut flush with textblock; dark brown leather, blind-tooled with triple lines and strapwork, spine plain; traces of two fore-edge clasps with thick brown leather straps and trefoil-shaped catch-plates, all lost; edges plain. Later damage to spine and to leather of front cover. 213–214 × 143–145 × c. 15 mm. (book closed).
History
Origin: 15th century
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854). 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
2020-09-14: Binding description added.