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MS. Canon. Ital. 4

Summary Catalogue no.: 20056

Contents

1.
Jacobus de Cessolis, De ludo scaccorum (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian
2.
Innocent IV (?), Moralitas de scaccario (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: i + 59 + ii fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 273 × 205 mm.

Layout

2 cols., c. 25-8 lines, column space 175-180 × 65-70 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Marinus Galazi (?) (erased), fol. 59v.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 495, pl. XLVII:

Fine miniatures (coloured drawings).

History

Origin: 1459 ; 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).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 3–4
Quarto Catalogue, col. 5
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 411

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (13 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 207

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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