MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 56
Summary Catalogue no.: 19042
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Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good historiated initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 476)
Binding
15th century, second quarter, Italian (as MS.): wood boards, bevelled; brown leather (delaminating), decorated with blind lines and strapwork tooling; spine plain; sewing on three straps of pink tawed leather; remains of two clasps with lost red-textile straps and surviving metal catch-plates each embossed with three rosettes; endleaves are erased fragments of polyphonic music. 231 × 163 × c. 35 mm. (book closed).
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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.
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