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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 182

Summary Catalogue no.: 18763

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good border.

Good historiated initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 127)

fol. 1r

  • Type initial C
  • Subject Window of a prison cell, showing heads of Boethius and Philosophy.

History

Origin: 14th century, middle ; Italian, Venice (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Erased arms of original owner, fol. 1

Erased ex libris of Cardinal Domenico Grimani d. 1523.

No. '1232' on fol. 1, 15th- or 16th-century.

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. 192
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

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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.

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