MS. Canon. Ital. 136

Summary Catalogue no.: 20188

Le Cesarie Batalie (Italian version of Li faits des romains)

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 67 + iii fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 292 × 215 mm.

Layout

2 cols., c. 40 lines, column space 195-220 × 75-80 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 492, pl. XLVII:

Fine miniatures (coloured drawings and others).

Drawings added on fols. 68v and 69v, 16th century.

History

Origin: 1454 ; Italian, North - Venice (?)

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. 150

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 414

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 234

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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