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

MS. Canon. Ital. 197

Summary Catalogue no.: 20249

Contents

Belo Moietta , Trattato di geometria
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 584, pl. LVI:

Good miniatures (coloured drawings).

Good historiated diagrams.

Good border.

Good initials.

History

Origin: c. 1486–1501 ; 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).

Availability

This item is on display in the exhibition ‘Lumen: The Art and Science of Light’, Los Angeles, Getty Centre, 10 September – 8 December 2024. It will not be orderable between those dates or for a short period before or afterwards.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (20 images 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.

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