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MS. Canon. Misc. 275

Summary Catalogue no.: 19751

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 5 + iii fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 215 × 140 mm.

Layout

1 col., 21 lines, 140 × 85 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 333)

Decoration

Miniature (coloured drawing). Attested by Johannes Bartholomei de Guidis 'officialis et scriba reformationum', Florence. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 333)

Binding

15th century, late, Italian (as MS.): wood boards; quarter-binding of red leather (discoloured to brown), fixed halfway across each bare board with vertical rows of 1+5+1 nails and lost edging strips; remains of a central clasp, with lost strap of multi-coloured brocade; lion emblem of Florence painted on the front paste-down. Lost intermediate repairs to spine; rebacked, 20th century, Bodleian, retaining about half of original spine. 227–231 × 145–146 × c. 13 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 1490 ; Italian, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (1854). 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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 642
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 405

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 320

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.