MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 112

Summary Catalogue no.: 18693

1. (fol. 1)

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 ccc^o. 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

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, cols. 155–6

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 319

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 320