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MS. Canon. Ital. 160

Summary Catalogue no.: 20212

(fols. 1r-75r)

Ovid, Ars amatoria (anonymous Italian translation in terza rima, attributed to Troilo Avenanti, cf. GW M28651)

Incipit: (prol.) Amor che per dolceza il del choregie

Incipit: (fol. 1v) Se algun di questo popol segue lorma

Explicit: Che uan per non saper pel mondo spersi

Colophon: Scripto io to me Nichollo Justinian(n)o | Le nobelissimo de mia propria man(n)o

Fols. 75v-85v originally ruled but blank; a 15th-century addition in Italian on fol. 78v and later additions on fols. 75v, 77v (mentioning Vicenza).

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper folded in octavo

Extent: i + 78 + i leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 193 × 140 mm.

Foliation: 1-78; endleaves not foliated. Fols. 1-75 with 18th-century foliation.

Layout

1 col., 23 lines; ruled space 120 × 80 mm.

Hand(s)

Gothic cursive; one hand, Niccolò Giustiniano (colophon).

Decoration

3-line blue initials with penwork in red.

Binding

Parchment over pasteboards, with carta bassanese endpapers, for Jacopo Soranzo.

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Jacopo Soranzo: his binding; identified by J. B. Mitchell as MS. 465 in quarto in Soranzo's catalogue (unpublished card catalogue, Bodleian Library).

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted by Matthew Holford (July 2022), with additional physical description, 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).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 168

Quarto Catalogue, col. 169

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 415