MS. Canon. Misc. 61
Summary Catalogue no.: 19537
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
16th century?, Italian: pasteboards; sewing on four thick split cords of tawed leather, perhaps preserved from a previous binding; brown leather (worn) with elaborate blind tooling, each cover divided into four small panels with centrepieces; cross-hatching on spine (part lost); traces of four pairs of lost ties, probably twists of tawed leather; edges stained blue; paste-downs from fragments of Justinian’s Digest, 14th century, Italian (visible text Lib. XII Tit. IV.9-V.1) and Cicero’s De officiis, 15th century, Italian? (visible text Bk. I.IV.10-V.16). 248–250 × 180–181 × c. 35–38 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.