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MS. Canon. Ital. 45

Summary Catalogue no.: 20097

Contents

Luca Pulci, Il Driadeo (preceded by a letter to Lorenzo de' Medici)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: i + 65+v fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 233 × 170 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 24-32 lines, 145 × c. 70-90 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in a month by Bernardo di Cristofano Carnesecchi, fol. 65v.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 311, pl. XXVIII:

Fine historiated border.

Fine initials.

History

Origin: 1478 ; 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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 52
Quarto Catalogue, col. 53
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 412

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 220

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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