Dante — 15th century; Italian
MS. Canon. Ital. 95
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Dante — 15th century; Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Ital. 95
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian
Date
15th century
Language
Italian
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS.): a quarter-binding with wood boards, left bare; spine of brown leather (? replacement), extending about a third across each cover and there pinned by a vertical line of 1+5+1 iron nails which also once secured a thin edging strip of the same leather (all but lost); leather undecorated; traces of two clasps at front fore-edge running to trefoil-shaped catch-plates at back, all lost; edges plain. Paper title-label added on spine, 18th century (cf. MSS. Canon. Ital. 27 and 104). 301–304 c. 210 c. 68 (book closed).
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Provenance
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Giuseppe Canonici , -1807
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Title
Dante, Divine comedy
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Ital. 95
Date
15th century
Language
Italian
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Italian
Dante, Divine comedy
