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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 168

Summary Catalogue no.: 18749

Contents

Apicius, De re coquinaria
Colophon: Seriptum per me Petrum Antonium Sallandum, Reginensem, die vigesimo septimo Maii M.cccc.lxxxx. (fol. 78r)

Capitula precede each book.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii + 78 + iv fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 125 mm.

Layout

1 col., 21 lines, 115 × 97 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script by Pierantonio Sallando of Reggio , fol. 78.

Decoration

Fine borders.

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 668, pl. LXIV)

fol. 1r

  • Type full border
  • Subject Architectural frontispiece with cooking implements. Coat of arms of Rossi of Bologna.

Binding

15th century, end, Italian, Bologna (as MS.): wood boards with inside bevel; dark brown leather with blind lines, stamps, strapwork centrepieces and gilt infilling; one of two fore-edge clasps surviving; gilt gauffered edges; spine lost. Twice rebacked, 18th-century, Italian, and 1949, Bodleian. 211 × 133–134 × c. 26 mm. (book closed). Cf. MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 167.

History

Origin: 1490 ; Italian, Bologna

Provenance and Acquisition

Arms of Rossi of Bologna.

'⟨A...le(?) Marescotti⟩', erased, 16th century, fol. 1

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Adapted (Feb. 2025) from the following sources, with additional description of decoration by Elizabeth Solopova, c. 2000:
B. C. Barker-Benfield, Bookbindings of Canonici manuscripts : a survey of early and non-standard bindings, mostly Italian, in the Canonici collection of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Oxford, privately printed, 2020).
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 176
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 668
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. 184
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Binding:

    Tammaro de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, 3 vols., Florence 1960, II no. 1406 B (under Bologna).

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 176

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-02: Encode all information from printed catalogues.