MS. Canon. Ital. 223
Summary Catalogue no.: 20275
Contents
Capitula to the four books.
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Fols. 166v-171v blank except for later additions: two copies of a quatrain beginning: 'Io son la morte'.
Physical Description
Layout
1 col., 34 lines, 138 × 85 mm.
Hand(s)
Hybrida; written by Giovanni de Lusa, chancellor of Kotor, who also wrote MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 38 (q.v.)
Decoration
Penwork initials: 10 lines (fol. 10r), otherwise 7-8 lines at the beginning of books (blue with red flourishing and heraldry (?) in red: see provenance), typically 4 lines at the beginning of chapters (alternating blue with red flourishing and red with red flourishing).
Rubrics; alternating blue and red paraphs.
Binding
Standard Canonici binding of plain parchment over pasteboard.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The griffin rampant gules in the larger initials may refer to the arms of Grifo of Venice (cf. MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 38).
Jacopo Soranzo: characteristic endpapers.
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Record Sources
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.