MS. Canon. Gr. 35

Summary Catalogue no.: 18488

Octateuch.

Language(s): Greek

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Hutter iii. 71:

Ornamental headpiece. Ornamental strips at the beginnings of books.

History

Origin: 12th century, beginning ; Italian, South

Provenance and Acquisition

Canterbury, Kent, Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church: "Liber ecclesie Christi Cant'" (fol. 1r), s. xiv–xv, obliterated. "Liber Octoteuchus", "una pars bibblie". (MLGB3: evidence from an ex-libris inscription or note of gift to an institution).

Cf. James, ALCD, pp. lxxxvi, 527. (MLGB3)

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 Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars prima recensionem codicum Graecorum continens, Quarto Catalogues I, 1883, repr. with corrections 1969). Decoration, localization and date follow Hutter.

Quarto Catalogue, col. 39

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 315

Bibliography

Irmgard Hutter, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften, I-III, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 3 vols. in 4 (Stuttgart, 1977–82), iii, 71 [Internet Archive]