MS. Canon. Ital. 116

Summary Catalogue no.: 20168

Dante, Paradiso (with commentary and gloss)

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 164 + ii fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 293 × 215 mm.

Layout

Fols. 1-69: 1 col., c. 40-45 lines, c. 220 × 165 mm.

Fols. 74-161: 1 col. of text of variable layout, c. 90 mm wide with surrounding gloss.

History

Origin: 1422 ; Italian

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 (A. Mortara, Catalogo dei manoscritti italiani che sotto la denominazione di Codici Canoniciani Italici si conservano nella Biblioteca Bodleiana a Oxford, Quarto Catalogues XI, 1864).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 131–2

Quarto Catalogue, col. 133

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 414

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 233

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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