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MS. Canon. Ital. 51

Summary Catalogue no.: 20103

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Jacopone da Todi, Laude

Preceded by table.

Rubric: Incominciano le laude del feruentissimo seruo di miss. iesu Xo Beato frate Jacopone da todi delordine de frati minori di san francesco

151 poems, mostly written as prose.

Incipit: O amore di pouertate regno di tranquilitate pouerta viui sichura Non a lite ne ranchura delatroni non a paura Ne de nulla tempestate

Last poem:

Incipit: Anima peregrina
Explicit: Non ce parte ne canto che non senta la spina Amen.
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper, folded in quarto; one watermark is crossed arrows with plumes
Extent: ii (unfoliated) + 2 + 170 + 1 + i (unfoliated) leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 145 mm.
Foliation: i-xii, 1-161

Layout

Ruled space c. 140-150 × 100 mm.

Decoration

Simple 2-line 'silhouette' initials in red.

Binding

Plain parchment over pasteboards; Italian, 18th century.

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Venice, Augustine abbey of S. Salvadore (fol. 160r).

Jacopo Soranzo, MS. 285 in quarto; his binding.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

MS. Canon. Ital. 51 - endleaves

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Language(s): Latin

Antiphonal

Fragments: SS. Gervasius and Protasius (19 June, including Cantus Index 003326, 201955), the vigil of St John Baptist (23 June, Cantus Index 003338), St Peter (29 June, including Cantus Index 004281)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: parts of 3 leaves
Musical Notation:

Neumatic notation on staves.

History

Origin: 12th century ; Italian

Additional Information

Record Sources

Description adapted by Matthew Holford (August 2022) 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), with limited additional physical description including of endleaves.
Quarto Catalogue, col. 69
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 412

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-08: Description revised for digitization.