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MS. Canon. Ital. 41

Summary Catalogue no.: 20093

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script by Lorenzo Spirito himself for presentation to Antonio Priuli of Venice, fols. 252v-53.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 283, pl. XXVI:

Fine border.

Fine initials.

History

Origin: 1469 ; Italian, Perugia

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. 49–50
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 412

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 219

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.