MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 212
Summary Catalogue no.: 19198
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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 Morimondo, nr. Milan (cf. MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 214): pasteboards; light reddish-brown leather of poor quality (delaminating), minimally tooled with triple blind lines round edges and again vertically near spine, and in cross-hatching on spine; title written in ink on spine; edges stained red (pattern, if any, indistinct). c. 350 × 222–224 × c. 70 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.