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MS. Canon. Misc. 101

Summary Catalogue no.: 19577

Contents

1.
Petrarch, Epistolae metricae
Language(s): Latin
2.
Cicero, Letters
Language(s): Latin
3.
Petrarch, De vita solitaria
Language(s): Latin
4.
Gasparino Barzizza, Letters
Language(s): Latin
5.
Petrarch, Letters
Language(s): Latin
6.
Antonius de Romagno, Letters
Language(s): Latin
7.
Paulus Picopassus , Letter
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 596, pl. LVII:

Fine historiated initials. By Lodovico Sanbonifazio of Padua and a second hand (?).

A miniature on vellum is added. A form of address to Sigismund as king of the Romans is added, fol. 262v. He was elected emperor in 1433.

History

Origin: 1414–1433 ; Italian, Padua

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 (1854). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 496
Quarto Catalogue, col. 497
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 401

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.