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

MS. Canon. Ital. 46

Summary Catalogue no.: 20098

Contents

1. (fols. 1r-79r)
Boccaccio, Ninfale Fiesolano
Incipit: Amore mi fa parlare chome nel chore
Explicit: dallor non sia e tu riman chon dio
Language(s): Italian
2. (fols. 79v-81v)
Federigo Frezzi, Quadriregno (I.1 only, continuing without a break from the previous text)
Incipit: Laddea il terzo ciel uolgiendo muoue
Explicit: il dolze amore cholle parole sue
Final rubric: Esplicit liber Ninfalis [in capitals, struck through in red]
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper. One main stock, folded in quarto; watermark, cardinal's hat with knot and two annular tassels (cf. Piccard Online 31983, WZIS DE4860-Ms50_16). Fols. 1, 10, 71, 80 are replacement leaves, folded in quarto, fols. 1 and 10 with a scissors watermark. Fol. 81 from a different stock, folded in octavo, no watermark visible.
Extent: ii + 82 + ii leaves (fol. i is conjoint with the left pastedown; fols. ii and 83 are early-modern paper endleaves; fol. 82 is an original paper endleaf, not watermarked; fol. 84 is conjoint with the right pastedown)
Dimensions (leaf): 226 × 162 mm.
Foliation: i-ii, 1-84

Collation

1(10) (fols. 1, 10 are replacement leaves), 2(10)-7(10), 8(?10+1, with fol. 81 added at the end of the quire: fols. 71 and 80 are replacement leaves)

Layout

Fols. 2-9, 11-70, 71-79: 30 long lines (3 stanzas of 8 lines in the Boccaccio text). Ruled in ink; ruled space 148 × 94 (6+82+6) mm. Written above top line.

Hand(s)

Cursive book script by one distinctive hand, except for the replacement leaves (fols. 1, 10, 71, 80)

Replacement leaves (fols. 1, 10, 71, 80) in humanistic script.

Decoration

Cf. Pächt and Alexander ii. 672:

Coat of arms, fol. 1.

4-line gold initial, fol. 1r.

Otherwise plain 1-line initials in alternating red and blue at the beginning of stanzas.

Binding

Parchment over pasteboard, with pastedowns of carta bassanese, a typical style of Jacopo Soranzo. Title written on the tail.

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; Italian, north (Bologna?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Pächt and Alexander's dating and localization (Bologna, late 15th century) were presumably inferred from the early provenance, but the coat of arms appears on a replacement leaf (fol. 1).

Arms of the Bentivoglio family of Bologna, between letters I. O., fol. 1r: Giovanni II Bentivoglio, 1443-1508 (?).

Jacopo Soranzo: typical binding; identifiable in the catalogue of his manuscripts (374 in quarto).

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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).

Last Substantive Revision

2024-07: Matthew Holford: new summary description.