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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 121

Summary Catalogue no.: 18702

Contents

Writings connected with Sibyls.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script by Johannes de Canonicis , fol. 13v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 903)

Decoration

Arms added in North Italy, 15th century, second half. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 903)

fol. 2r

History

Origin: 1420 (at least in part); decoration added, 15th century, second half ; 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, vol. 3, col. 160
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 320

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 169 (fols. 11-13)

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.