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MS. Canon. Misc. 183

Summary Catalogue no.: 19659

Contents

Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good historiated border and initial. Written by Johannes Chanaverii 'incuratus Alesii' (Alais, Gard (?)). (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1323)

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

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.