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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 179

Summary Catalogue no.: 18760

Contents

Hyginus, Astronomica
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 880, pl. LXXVIII)

Decoration

Fine miniatures (coloured drawings).

fols. 28r-41v

  • Type miniatures
  • Subject Coloured drawings of mythological figures, representing major constellations.

Fine initials (rubbed). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 880, pl. LXXVIII)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; 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. 191
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (36 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.