Good miniatures (drawings) on fols. 93–139. Epigraphic capitals and humanistic script characteristic of North-east Italy. On fol. 47 the letters D.O.L.S.IN. and on fol. 134 D.M.O.Q.I. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 330, pl. XXX)

Binding

15th century, end, Italian (as MS., ?Florence): wood boards; reddish-brown leather with blind lines and strapwork tooling, forming a narrow diamond pattern within a panel; spine cross-hatched with triple lines; remains of four clasps, with star-headed nails and trefoil-shaped flat-metal catch-plates extant, but leather straps lost. Endleaves of carta bassanese added, 18th century, Italian, for Jacopo Soranzo (= Sor. 309 in folio). 299–300 × c. 163–166 × c. 48 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; 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. 464

Quarto Catalogue, col. 465

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 400