MS. Canon. Misc. 559
Summary Catalogue no.: 20035
Contents
Astrological tables.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Historiated diagrams. (P&A ii. 917)
Binding
15th century, ?Italian (as MS.): limp parchment wrapper, single thickness, undecorated: a single-section booklet, sewn through and outside the wrapper’s spine at two sewing-stations around vertical cores (one lost); medieval writing on the inside covers confirms the wrapper’s early date. c. 270 × 185–190 × c. 12–15 mm. (book closed).
History
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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-09-14: Binding description added.