MS. Canon. Ital. 58

Summary Catalogue no.: 20110

Agostino di Cipriano di Martino of Venice, Libro dilletevole da legiere e da imparare a scrivere (various texts written in different scripts)

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 170 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 195 × 144 mm.

Layout

1 col., 16 lines, 80-95 × 55-70 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Agostino di Cipriano himself, fol. 1.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 1017:

Miniatures (drawings).

Borders.

History

Origin: 1566 ; 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. 75–6

Quarto Catalogue, col. 77

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 412