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

MS. Canon. Misc. 140

Summary Catalogue no.: 19616

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
155 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 160 mm.

Layout

1 col., 33 lines, 145 × 90 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 460:

Good initial. Written in Venice in 1430 by Henricus Zeuchener for Blasius de Molino, Venetian patriarch of Grado, fol. 155v.

History

Origin: 1430 ; 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 (1854). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 302

Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.