MS. Canon. Misc. 183

Summary Catalogue no.: 19659

Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 238 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 172 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 47 lines, column space 183 × 50 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander iii. 1323:

Good historiated border.

Good initial. Written by Johannes Chanaverii 'incuratus Alesii' (Alais, Gard (?)).

History

Origin: 1309 ; French, South

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 (1973).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 564

Quarto Catalogue, col. 565

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 403

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 307

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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