MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 209
Summary Catalogue no.: 19195
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Binding
18th century, Italian, a standard binding style for manuscripts from the Cistercian abbey of Chiaravalle della Colomba nr. Piacenza (cf. MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 213): wood boards with modest squares; light brown leather of poor quality (delaminating), no tooling on covers; bands crudely nailed onto the outside boards under the leather and minimally outlined on spine with blind lines; edges plain; ink title on spine, worn away. 378 × 258–259 × 63–65 mm. (book closed).
History
Origin: 13th 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.