MS. Canon. Misc. 58
Summary Catalogue no.: 19534
Contents
, De mulieribus claris
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine historiated initials.
Fine other initials. Close to the style of Zebo da Firenze. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 131, pl. XIII)
Binding
15th century, Italian: heavy wood boards, with broad bevel; reddish-brown leather, blind-tooled with quintuple lines, stamps and strapwork; traces of two lost fore-edge clasps with broad straps; paper label with 15th-century ink title at back cover, upper centre; spine lost. Crudely rebacked with parchment, ?18th century, Italian; further repairs, late 19th or 20th century, Bodleian. 287–290 × 203–204 × c. 30 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 (1 image from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-09-14: Binding description added.