MS. Canon. Misc. 487
Summary Catalogue no.: 19963
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS., c. 1410–1450): thick wood boards, flush with text-block; formerly full brown leather, later removed (offsets of turn-ins at former front paste-down); traces of four clasps and of 4+1 bosses on each cover, lost or concealed. Rebacked 20th century, Bodleian, in modern pigskin, quarter-leather style, with new paper paste-downs and endleaves. 265–266 × 190–192 × c. 42–43 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.