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MS. Canon. Ital. 153

Summary Catalogue no.: 20205

Contents

Suetonius, De uita caesarum (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Hand(s)

Semi-humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 486, pl. XLVII:

Fine miniature.

Fine border.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italian, 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. 162
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 415

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.