MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 112
Summary Catalogue no.: 18693
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A three-part motet to the Blessed Virgin in Italian Ars nova notation, in which an acrostic refers to Marcus Paduanus. Although not definitely in the hand of the main scribe this is contemporary with the main text. On it see RISM, sér. B, pt. 4, vol. iv (1972), 666.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., 30 lines, 170 × 95–100 mm.
Fols. 35-6v: 5 lines of script and 5 staves of music.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Fol. 1: 'Francisci Amadi C. P.' (s. xvi): Francesco Amadi (d. 1566), Venetian lawyer and man of letters, who studied in Padua: see Archivio dei possessori and Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; for his ex libris 'Francisci Amadi comitis Pallatini' in British Library Add. MS. 6891 see Diego Quaglioni, “Un nuovo testimone per l’edizione della «Monarchia» di Dante: il Ms. Add. 6891 della British Library”, Laboratoire italien, 11 | 2011, 231-280 at n. 10
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
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