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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 15

Summary Catalogue no.: 18596

Contents

Ovid, works
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Written by Johannes (Nardi Fusci) de Itro , fol. 222v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 359)

Decoration

Fine border.

Fine initials. Epigraphic capitals perhaps by Bartolomeo Sanvito . (Pächt and Alexander ii. 359, pl. XXXIV)

History

Origin: c. 1460–1480 ; Italian, Rome (?)

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, cols. 115–6
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 317

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (6 images from 35mm slides)

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.