MS. Canon. Ital. 285

Summary Catalogue no.: 20337

Virgil, Aeneid (Italian prose translation)

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 156 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 275 × 215 mm.

Layout

2 cols., c. 28-33 lines, column space 160 × 60 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Maria di Matteo Cimatore, fol. 156v.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 952:

Border.

Initial.

History

Origin: 1455 ; Italian

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, cols. 253–4

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 418

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 251

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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