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MS. Canon. Ital. 151

Summary Catalogue no.: 20203

Contents

Augustine, De civitate dei (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Good initial in style of 15th century, first half (painted over penwork initial and possibly a much later fake). Written in 1461 (not 1361, watermarks are 15th century, middle) by Pietro di Bonaghuida di Martino 'al presente venditore in doghana di Firenze' for Francesco ...., partly erased inscription, fol. 264v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 279)

History

Origin: 1461 (?) ; Italian, Florence

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. 160
Quarto Catalogue, col. 161
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 414

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 236

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.