MS. Canon. Ital. 85

Summary Catalogue no.: 20137

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Important miniatures, borders, initials. Humanistic script by Andreas de Laude . (P&A ii. 393, pl. XXXVII and frontispiece)

History

Origin: c. 1463-1464 ; Italian, Mantua or Ferrara (?)

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. 102

Quarto Catalogue, col. 103

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 413

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