MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 4
Summary Catalogue no.: 18990
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Hand(s)
Written in humanistic script in 1437, fol. 199. (P&A ii. 462)
Decoration
Good border.
Historiated initial (damaged). (P&A ii. 462)
Binding
18th century, Italian, a standard style in the Canonici collection (?archaizing): wood boards with large squares; diced reddish-brown leather, tooled with blind lines and one roll to form a panel with a central lozenge shape but no centrepiece; spine with simple gilt lines and green-leather label with gilt title, and ‘COD.MEM.’ in gilt tooled directly on the spine. 183–185 × 134–136 × c. 55 mm. (book closed).
History
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).
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-08-26: Binding description added.