MS. Canon. Ital. 21
Summary Catalogue no.: 20073
Contents
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
Provenance and Acquisition
Jacopo Soranzo: old foliation 43-58 (R. Mitchell card index).
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)
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.