MS. Canon. Ital. 29

Summary Catalogue no.: 20081

Egidio Colonna, De regimine principum (Italian translation)

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 135 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 287 × 212 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 33 lines, column space 170 × 60 mm.

Decoration

Added to a MS. written in 1334 by the priest Giunta de Computo, chaplain of S. Quiriaco Alluliva di Lucca, fol. 135v. Pächt and Alexander ii. 138:

Good border.

Historiated initial,

History

Origin: 1334; additions, 14th century, end ; Italian, Bologna or 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).

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 35–6

Quarto Catalogue, col. 37

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 412