William of Heytesbury, Richard Kilvington — Multiple dates; Italian, Padua (?); Italian, Venice (added decoration)

Title

William of Heytesbury, Richard Kilvington — Multiple dates; Italian, Padua (?); Italian, Venice (added decoration)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Misc. 409

Associated place

Italian

Place of origin

Italian, Padua (?); Italian, Venice (added decoration)

Date

added decoration, 15th century, end

1385–6;

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Decoration

Fine borders.

Fine initials (partly unfinished). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 143).

Added fine border, Venice, 15th century, end. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 573, pl. LIV)

Binding

15th century, late, Italian (MS. bequeathed by Nicoleto Vernia (d. 1499) to the canons of S. Bartolomeo, Vicenza): wood boards, inside bevel; brown leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines, stamps and strapwork; remains of four clasps with lost brown-leather straps, of originally four brass corner-pieces and one centrepiece all with boss-like extrusions on each cover, and of a lost chain-staple at foot of lower cover. Rebacked (losing spine and inside corner-pieces) in lighter brown leather with gilt lines and gilt red-leather label, new endleaves of plain paper, 18th century, Italian. c. 357–358 c. 245–248 c. 45–48 (book closed). The inside corner-pieces were transferred to the 18th-century binding of MS. Canon. Liturg. 333.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Hentisbery, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Misc. 409

Summary

William of Heytesbury, works

Richard Kilvington, Sophismata (incomplete)

Logical treatises

Date

1385-1386; added decoration, 15th century, end

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume