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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 297

Summary Catalogue no.: 18878

Contents

Livy, Fourth decade (omitting bk. xxxiii) (Companion MS to MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 296.)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 227+i fols. i+ 185 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 370 × 260 mm.

Layout

1 col., 35 lines, 230 × 130-135 mm.

Decoration

Fine initials. Written in humanistic script by Giovanfrancesco Marzi of San Gimignano , fol. 185. Fol. 1 a later replacement. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 308)

Binding

15th century, Italian (as MS.): wood boards; reddish-brown leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines and stamps including near-strapwork designs (but no laurel), and spine cross-hatched with double lines; gilt gauffered edges; slots cut in front board under leather for four broad straps or clasps (absent, perhaps never completed, no matching evidence in lower board). 380–386 × 259 × c. 60 mm. (book closed). A pair with MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 296, which shows the same anomaly over clasps, tools not quite identical.

MSS. Canon. Gr.

History

Origin: c. 1476 ; Italian, Tuscany

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). Binding: 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).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 239
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 323

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 203

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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