MS. Canon. Misc. 18
Summary Catalogue no.: 19494
Contents
, Commentary on Martianus Capella, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
14th century, late, or 15th century, Italian?, incorporating earlier sewing: wrapper of limp parchment reused from an unfinished document probably of the Avignon Pope Clement VII (1378–94); sewing on three thick double-cords of tawed leather, probably once visible (before repair) outside the spine where three windows were cut to fit them; no decoration, but pen-trials etc. by 15th-century hands on the outside covers. From Jacopo Soranzo’s collection (= Sor. 362 in quarto). Repairs and added endleaves, 20th century, Bodleian. 200–201 × 125–128 × c. 11–13 mm. (book closed).
History
Origin: 11th century, end
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.