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MS. Canon. Ital. 12

Summary Catalogue no.: 20064

Contents

Domenico Cavalca, Pungilingua
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 80 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 162 mm.

Layout

2 cols., c. 35-40 lines, column space 155-165 × 53-65 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 269, pl. XXIV:

Fine penwork borders and initials. Written at Monte Oliveto by Fra Fortunato and left to the abbey at his death, fol. 80v.

History

Origin: 1459 ; Italian, Central

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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 12
Quarto Catalogue, col. 13
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 411

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 210

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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