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

MS. Canon. Misc. 183

Summary Catalogue no.: 19659

Contents

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).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

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

Last Substantive Revision

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