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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 112

Summary Catalogue no.: 18693

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Bellino Bissolo, Speculum vitae
Rubric: Alterius sit tibi vita speculum prius acta; Prospice preteritum dat scire novum ; Incipit speculum vite a magistro Belino compositum
Incipit: (prol.) Historias recitare novas velut est nova fama
Rubric: De muliere male nupta, viro que male consuluit; ad notandum, quod qui odit male consulit, et qui male consulit alii, male consulit sibi
Incipit: Femina temporibus nostris fuit una maligno
Explicit: Si quis forte volet vivendi noscere normam, Atque placere Deo, dogmate dives erit.
Colophon: Deo gratias, m.ccc.xxv. faetum
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 34v)
Incipit: Quatuor modis pervertitur humanum judicium, timore, eupiditate
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 35)
Hymn with music
Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 37)
Bellino Bissolo, Liber legum moralium
Rubric: Liber legum moralium Belini Bixoli Mediolano.
Incipit: (prol.) Dum juvenes nati reputo vos esse timendum
Incipit: Morales nati, quas vobis lego legatis, Leges et vestri, jussa notare patris
Explicit: Metrorum claudit centum liber iste decenas, Terque duas, quibus hoc terminat actor opus
Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 55v)
Bellino Bissolo, Libellus de regimine uitae et sanitatis
Rubric: Libellus de regimine vite et sanitatis
Incipit: In eamera munda retine cubile decorum, In quo sufficiens sit tibi nocte quies
Explicit: Evita nimium frigus nimiumve calorem, Ut sanus vivas inter utrumque tene
Colophon: Explicit speculum vite ; Qui Scripsit, scribat, semper cum Domino vivat. Vivat in celis ; Prosdocimus de citadella custos Majoris ecclesie Paduane in nomine felix ; Millesimo ccco. xxv. indicione viii."
Language(s): Latin

Short pieces:

(fol. 55v)
Prayer for peace
(fol. 59)
The gospel for "dominica in sexagessima"
(fol. 59v)
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (fragment)
(fol. 60)
Hymns to the Virgin and Savior
(fol. 60)
Rubric: De tribus figuris in archu apparentibus
Incipit: Arcus habet trinos plena ratione colores
(fol. 60v)
Rubric: Chronological table in French
Incipit: Des le comencement dou munde
Language(s): Old French
(fol. 61)
Easter table
(fol. 64v)
Prayer to the Saviour
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 61v)
Marchetto da Padova, Aue regina / Mater innocencie / Ite missa est

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.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 64 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 245 × 170 mm.

Layout

1 col., 30 lines, 170 × 95–100 mm.

Musical Notation:

Fols. 35-6v: 5 lines of script and 5 staves of music.

History

Origin: 1325 ; Italy, Padua

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

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted (Feb. 2025) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 167
H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2025-02: Encode all information from printed catalogues.