MS. Canon. Ital. 196

Summary Catalogue no.: 20248

Giovanbattista Palatino, Writing book

Language(s): Spanish, Italian, Latin, and French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Miniatures (coloured drawings), initials. (P&A ii. 1010, pl. LXXXIII)

History

Origin: after 1541 ; Italian, Rome

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, cols. 195-6

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 416

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