A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Ital. 273

Summary Catalogue no.: 20325

Contents

Legend of Josaphat
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 34 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 283 × 195 mm.

Layout

1 col., 31 lines, 190-195 × 130-135 mm.

Decoration

Good initial. Date given, fol. 33. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 491)

History

Origin: 1453 ; Italian, Venice

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).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 250

Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.