MS. Canon. Misc. 197
Summary Catalogue no.: 19673
Contents
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS.): wood boards, with modestly rounded outside bevel; brown leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines, strapwork, and a floral stamp making an outer frame; spine boldly cross-hatched with blind double lines; traces of two fore-edge clasps and of 4+1 circular bosses on each cover, all lost; edges uncoloured, with traces of incised patterning. Substantially repaired with new leather, late 19th or 20th century, Bodleian. 294 × 219–220 × c. 47 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.