MS. Canon. Ital. 121

Summary Catalogue no.: 20173

Edition in progress by Dr. David P. Bénéteau (notified September 2023).

Incipit: Qui comincia di ~~The~~ la cittade di tebes. R. cxviii. uNo. Re. era allora in quel tempo in thebes ricco e possente. Laius era appellato. Elli auea moglie del suo linguaggio Ke. Jocasta auea nome. Quel re ebbe un figliuolo

Explicit: [Dei Re di macedonia ke regnaro infin attempo dallexandro. R. cclxx] ma inanzi ke io dilui nulla ui dica vi diro io de fatti del Re philippo suo padre una parte. e dela reina Olimpia sua madre lamollie del re phylippo et di qual terra ella fu nata. q di qual lignaggio.

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 84 + ii leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 295 × 220 mm.

Foliation: modern, 1-84 (endleaves unfoliated); earlier (18th-century) foliation 56-139.

Collation

1(8)-10(8), 11(4)

Layout

Ruled in leadpoint; 2 cols., c. 41-46 lines; ruled space c. 200-205 × c. 160-167 (76 + 15 + 76) mm.

Hand(s)

Southern textualis.

Decoration

Spaces left for miniatures and initials.

Binding

18th-century parchment over pasteboards, a typical style of the Canonici collection.

History

Origin: 14th century, early ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Jacopo Soranzo: endleaves and foliation typical of his manuscripts; his ms. 326 in folio.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted by Matthew Holford (Sept. 2024) 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), with limited additional physical description.

Quarto Catalogue, col. 136

Quarto Catalogue, col. 137

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 414