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MS. Canon. Ital. 251

Summary Catalogue no.: 20303

Contents

Gregory the Great, Dialogues (Italian translation by Domenico Cavalca )
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 761:

Miniature (marginal sketch).

Good initials.

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; Italian, North (?)

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. 232
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 417

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image 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.