MS. Canon. Misc. 422
Summary Catalogue no.: 19898
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Binding
15th century, mid, Italian (as MS., a university book, with a note on pecia production at fol. 52v and financial notes for 1449 in Italian on back paste-down): wood boards; quarter-binding of faded red tawed leather, stretched across about a third of each bare board to a vertical row of 1+8+1 star-headed studs (most remaining) with lost edging strips; remains of a central fore-edge clasp, with brass catch-plate embossed with ‘yh’s’ below the letter ‘S’; spine mostly lost; edges plain, traces of ink title at top. 343–347 × 238 × c. 46–48 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.