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

MS. Canon. Ital. 38

Summary Catalogue no.: 20090

Contents

1.
Astrological tables
Language(s): Italian
2.
Cecco d'Ascoli, L'Acerba Eta
Language(s): Italian
3.
Poem
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 99 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 313 × 210 mm.

Layout

1 col., 32 lines, 213 × 70-80 mm.

Decoration

Copies of an earlier MS. Written by Bonifazio, fols. 92, 98. Table for years 1456–1474, fol. 1. Pächt and Alexander ii. 266, pl. XXIV:

Miniatures.

Borders.

Initials.

History

Origin: 1456 ; Italian, Florence

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).

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (8 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 217

Last Substantive Revision

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