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MS. Canon. Ital. 202

Summary Catalogue no.: 20254

Contents

Legend of Josaphat
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Hand(s)

Written by Alessandro Ziliol, fol. 46.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 501:

Miniatures (drawings), unfinished, with pencil drawings and later sketches over them.

History

Origin: 1465 ; 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. 199
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 416

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 240

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.