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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 138

Summary Catalogue no.: 18719

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good border, historiated and other initials (partly defaced). (P&A ii. 758)

fol. 179r

  • Type drawing
  • Subject Head-and-shoulders portrait of a crowned woman; face, cross and other partialy deleted sketches.

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; 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. 169
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 320

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)