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MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 59

Summary Catalogue no.: 18952

Contents

Bible
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 102, pl. IX:

Fine historiated initials. Partly mutilated. Historiated initials of 15th century, fols. 191r, 418r, 422v. )

Fine other initials.

Drawing, fol. 27v, c. 1400.

History

Origin: 13th century, end; added decoration, c. 1400 and 15th century ; Italian, North (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 267–8
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 325

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (6 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.