Basil the Great — 12th century (?)
MS. Canon. Gr. 55
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Basil the Great — 12th century (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Gr. 55
Associated place
Italian
Date
12th century (?)
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Binding
18th century, second half, Italian, for Canonici, a standard archaizing style: wood boards; diced brown leather, blind-tooled with lines and rolls in two frames around a blank diamond; spine with gilt lines and red-leather label. 294–295 218–220 c. 110–115 (book closed).
Remnants of a prior intermediate binding, 15th or 16th century, Italian: edges painted with prominent red rings linked with smaller design-elements; flyleaves cut from fine 15th-century Italian parchment ruled (but blank) for a larger book.
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Provenance
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Giuseppe Canonici , -1807
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Title
Works of Basil the Great
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Gr. 55
Date
c. 12th century
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Greek
Works of Basil the Great
