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MS. Canon. Ital. 297

Summary Catalogue no.: 20349

Contents

Augustine, De civitate dei (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 762, pl. LXXII:

Fine border.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; Italian, North-east

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. 258
Quarto Catalogue, col. 259
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 418

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.