MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 191

Summary Catalogue no.: 18772

Aristotle, Metaphysics (tr. Johannes Argyropulos )

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

135 +i fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 285 × 213 mm.

Layout

1 col., 33 lines, 195 × 115–130 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script in Rome in 1475, fol. 118v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 360)

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 360)

History

Origin: 1475 ; 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). Extent, dimensions and layout from Watson (1984).

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 195

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 180

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.

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