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Summary Catalogue no.: 20073

Aegidius de Aquino, Liber avium viventium de rapina (Italian tr.)

F. Capaccioni, ed., Egidio d’Aquino. Liber avium viventium de rapina, Textes vernaculaires du moyen âge, 7 (Brepols Publishers, 2012), sig. O1, with description of the manuscript at pp. 28-33.

Language(s): Italian (Tuscan, according to Capaccioni)

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 16 leaves + 1 modern tracing (fol. 8), foliated 1-17.

Dimensions (leaf): 199 × 134 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 146, pl. XIII:

Good miniatures, partly damaged. The series of illustrations goes back to an exemplar of the time of Frederick II.

History

Origin: c. 1300 ; Italian, Naples

Provenance and Acquisition

Jacopo Soranzo: old foliation 43-58 (R. Mitchell card index).

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted 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), corrected with reference to Capaccioni's edition. Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 26

Quarto Catalogue, col. 27

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 412