MS. Canon. Misc. 433
Summary Catalogue no.: 19909
Contents
Homiliary.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good historiated initials.
Good other initials.
Fine penwork borders and initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 549)
Binding
15th century, third quarter, Italian (as MS.): wood boards with inside bevel; reddish-brown leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines, stamps (one with a human face) and strapwork; traces of four clasps with lost brown-leather straps. Crudely rebacked in parchment, 18th century, Italian, with underlying (later?) canvas strengthener. 324–329 × 220 × c. 73–80 mm. (book closed).
History
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). 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).
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-09-14: Binding description added.