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MS. Canon. Ital. 240

Summary Catalogue no.: 20292

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–70 || fols. 71–94

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

MS. Canon. Ital. 240 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Ps.-Augustine, Soliloquia animae ad Deum (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian
2.
Life of St Margaret
Language(s): Italian
3.
Jacopone da Todi, Laudi
Language(s): Italian
4.
Prayers
Language(s): Latin
5.
Poems
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 656:

Good historiated initials (rubbed).

Good other initials (rubbed).

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; Italian, Bologna (?)

MS. Canon. Ital. 240 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Hymns to the Virgin
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 753:

Good historiated initial.

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; Italian, North

Additional Information

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. 228
Quarto Catalogue, col. 229
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 417

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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.