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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 152

Summary Catalogue no.: 18733

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Phocas, Ars de nomine et uerbo
Rubric: Procae, Grammatici illustris, de nomine et verbo liber
Final rubric: (fol. 15) Phocae grammatici illustris de nomine et verbo liber explicit, M.cccc.lxx.
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 16)
Georgius Trapezuntius, Grammar
Rubric: Georgii Trebesontii compendium grammatices ad Andream filium
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 67)
Omnibonus Leonicenus, De arte metrica
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 77 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 233 × 160 mm.

Layout

Fols. 1-15: 26-30 lines, 1 col., 155 × 100 mm.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. After fol. 1 line 12 the hand changes from a humanistica textualis to a humanistica cursiva.

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 505)

History

Origin: 1470 (at least in part, colophon, fol. 15) ; Italian, Venice

Provenance and Acquisition

The rest of the book is undated but the cursive hand is one that appears in it, and the decoration is similar to that of the first part.

A coat of arms has been excised from fol. 1.

Venice, Carthusian abbey: fol. ii v, Iste liber est domus Carthusiensis venetiarum' (s.xv).

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Adapted (Feb. 2025) from the following sources:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 174 (fols. 1-15)
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 505
H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854)
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 179
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 320

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 174 (fols. 1-15)

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-02: Encode all information from printed catalogues.

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