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MS. Canon. Ital. 288

Summary Catalogue no.: 20340

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–91 || fols. 92–105

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

MS. Canon. Ital. 288 – Part 1

Contents

Benedetto da Cesena , De honore mulierum (dedicated to Pandolfo Malatesta)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine initials (drawings), the first almost erased. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 849, pl. LXXVII)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Rimini (?)

MS. Canon. Ital. 288 – Part 2

Contents

Petrarch, Il Canzoniere (fragments)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script.

Decoration

Good initials. A set with MS. Add. C. 133 fols. 2–5.(Pächt and Alexander ii. 350, pl. XXXIII)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Rome (?)

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. 255
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 418

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

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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.