MS. Canon. Misc. 314
Summary Catalogue no.: 19790
Contents
Commentary on Aristotle, Ethics
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS.): wood boards, cut flush with text-block; quarter-binding of red tawed leather, undecorated, secured across about 40% of each bare board with a vertical row of 1+4+1 metal nails, mostly extant; remains of a central clasp with lost strap of red tawed leather; ink title (date unclear) added at top right of front board. 212–213 × 145 × c. 35 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.