Abrahamo Guer de Cordova (?) — 17th century (?)

Title

Abrahamo Guer de Cordova (?) — 17th century (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Misc. 544

Associated place

Spanish

Date

17th century (?)

Language

Spanish

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Binding

17th century, Spanish? (as MS.), perhaps in archaizing style for presentation: pasteboards made of waste from an illustrated printed (emblem?) book; reddish-brown leather; faint blind tooling with stamps, a roll?, and triple lines, forming a diamond within a panel; gilt lines and centrepiece of a rampant lion (for León?) on each cover; spine with gilt lines and a small blind rosette in each panel; speckled edges; two clasps with leather straps (partly extant) running from back cover to metal pins at the front cover’s fore-edge; four large domed bosses of gold-coloured metal on each cover. 262–267 188–192 c. 38–39 (book closed).

Fols. 1r (title) and 51r (last page of main text) have glue deposits on their versos to indicate that they were the original paste-downs: possible evidence of an early change of plan to add this more lavish binding.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Abrahamo ⟨Guer⟩ de Cordova (?), Fortaleza del Yudaismo y confusion del Estrano

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Misc. 544

Date

17th century

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume