MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 213
Summary Catalogue no.: 19199
Contents
, Expositio de Psalmo CXVIII
Language(s): Latin
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. 209): wood boards with large 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; faint traces of ink title mostly torn away at top of spine; edges stained pinkish red (faded). A back flyleaf (fol. 183) was the paste-down of an earlier binding. c. 355 × c. 223–225 × c. 68 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.