MS. Bodl. 1026

Summary Catalogue no.: 24770

Trattato dello compendio de salute (abridged from Niccolò Osimo, Quadriga Spirituale, written in 1442)

Rubric: ... Lo tratato delo Compendio de Salute

Incipit: (prologue) Per dare breue introductione

Incipit: (text) Ad intellecto dela fede

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 34 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 8.75 × 6.25 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 465

Good initials

History

Origin: after 1442 ; Italy, Venice or Bologna (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian at Sotheby's on 4 April 1859 from the collection of Guillaume Libri. 1015 in the sale catalogue

Record Sources

Description adapted (May 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1905). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 5, p. 69

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-05-29: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1905) and other printed sources

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