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MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 211

Summary Catalogue no.: 19197

'Ephraem Graecus', Sermons (tr. Ambrogio Traversari)

Language(s): Latin

Baptista de Iudicibus de Finaria, Serapion siue Trialogus de contemptu mundi

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 403, pl. XXXIX)

Decoration

Fine initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 403, pl. XXXIX)

Binding

15th century, third quarter, Italian (as MS., after text 2’s composition c. 1458–60): wood boards; red leather, tooled with blind lines and strapwork; spine cross-hatched, with dots; traces of four clasps with leather straps, of four corner-pieces and a large diamond-shaped metal centrepiece on each cover, and (back cover) of a rectangular label-holder at upper centre and a chain-staple at lower edge: all these metal fittings (which partly obscured the strapwork) now lost. 365–369 × 247–249 × c. 40–42 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Ferrara or Padua (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

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). 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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 406

Quarto Catalogue, col. 407

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 330