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

MS. Canon. Ital. 32

Summary Catalogue no.: 20084

Contents

Sabello Micheli, Il Filogeo
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: i + 48 + ii fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 294 × 215 mm.

Layout

1 col., 25 lines, c. 95–100 × 60–65 mm.

On many leaves surrounded by accompanying text, the overall written area thus being c. 220 × 165 mm. , c. 65 lines.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 461:

Good border.

Good historiated initial.

History

Origin: 1431 (fol. 48v) ; 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. 215

Last Substantive Revision

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