MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 178
Summary Catalogue no.: 19164
Contents
Mariale
, Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
15th century, second half, Italian (as MS.): wood boards; dark brown leather, blind-tooled with lines, stamps and strapwork, spine lost; two clasps with brown leather straps and metal tips with floral patterns, running to flat trefoil-shaped catch-plates; remains of a lost chain staple at back board, lower inside corner; binding fragment (fol. i) containing Isidore, Sententiae, III.17.4–18.2, 12th century?, Italian. Rebacked with new spine and heavy repairs in lighter brown leather (cf. MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 191), with gilt red-leather label, 18th century, Italian. 273–274 × 188–190 × c. 41–2 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
2020-08-26: Binding description added.