MS. Canon. Misc. 523

Binding

15th century (after 1446, see fol. 103v), Italian: thick wood boards, flush with text-block, bare; modern quarter-leather spine of light-brown leather, attached with edging strips nearly halfway across each board with 1+4+1 star-headed studs, doubtless carried over from the earlier spine of dark brown leather; a further 1+6+1 studs for each board through the modern leather at their spine edges; single central clasp with red textile strap (half lost) and trefoil-shaped brass catch-plate embossed with ‘yh’s’ and ‘aue’. Rebacked, late 19th or 20th century, Bodleian. 201–204 × 130 × c. 57–60 mm. (book closed).

In this composite volume, the final fols. 148-[190] have ?gauffered edges.