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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 195

Summary Catalogue no.: 18776

Contents

1.
Aristotle, Politics (tr. Leonardo Bruni
Language(s): Latin
2.
Leonardo Bruni, Letter to Flavio Biondo about the translation, 1438
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good initials. Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 809)

History

Origin: 15th century, middle (after 1438) ; Italian, probably Venice

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. 196
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321

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.