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MS. Canon. Ital. 37

Summary Catalogue no.: 20089

Contents

(fols. 1r-173v)
Federico Frezzi, Il quadriregno

Fols. 1r-2v: capitula for the four books.

Rubric: (fol. 3r) ⟨I⟩ncommincia el libro de Regni al Magnifico & excelso segnore Vgolino de Trinci de Folygno diuiso in quatro libri. El primo tracta de […]
Incipit: ⟨L⟩Adea chel terço ciel uolendo moue

Bk. 2, fol. 46v; bk. 3, fol. 88v; bk. 4, fol. 127r.

Explicit: Sera dio mio el di chad te retorni
Final rubric: Fenisse el quarto et ultimo libro di regni cioe de regni de uertude

Fol. 174r ruled, blank; fol. 175v blank except for top horinzontal rule in leadpoint.

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper, folded in folio (not examined fully for the present description, but apparently more than one stock; watermark(s) often indistinct, fol. 45r unicorn). Fols. ii-iii with watermark 'letter M', cf. Briquet 8371 (Modena, 1481/3).
Extent: i (conjoint with pastedown, unfoliated) + i (paper endleaf of the date of the binding) + ii (paper endleaves from an earlier binding) + 174 + i (paper endleaf of the date of the binding, unfoliated) + i (conjoint with pastedown, unfoliated)
Dimensions (leaf): 335 × 233 mm.
Foliation: [one unfoliated endleaf], i-iii, 1-174, [two unfoliated endleaves]

Collation

1(10)-16(10), 17(8), 18(6); scribal catchwords; bifolium signatures; informal catchwords on most versos.

Layout

A three-sided frame (open at the bottom) apparently ruled in leadpoint; ruling within the frame in ink for 36 long lines. Written below top line. Ruled space 195 × 107 mm.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script.

Decoration

Spaces for initials left unfilled: 12 lines on fol. 3r; 9 lines at the beginning of other books; 6 lines at the beginning of chapters.

Rubrics in red.

Binding

Parchment over pasteboard, with pastedowns of carta bassanese, a typical style of Jacopo Soranzo.

Fols. ii-iii are endleaves from an earlier binding, perhaps 15th century (watermark 'letter M', cf. Briquet 8371 (Modena, 1481/3)).

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italy

Provenance and Acquisition

Jacopo Soranzo: typical binding; identifiable in the catalogue of his manuscripts (1007 in folio).

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Summary description by Matthew Holford (July 2024). Previously described in 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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 45
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 412

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-07: Matthew Holford: new summary description.