A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Ital. 187

Summary Catalogue no.: 20239

Contents

Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (books i-v) (Italian translation by Zanobi da Strada)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 213:

Fine historiated border.

Fine and good historiated initials.

Fine and good other initials. A two-volume set with MS. Canon. Ital. 184.

History

Origin: 15th century, first quarter ; 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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

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.