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MS. Canon. Misc. 251

Summary Catalogue no.: 19727

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper

Decoration

By Cristoforo Cortese. Written by Godefridus Johannes de Justfaes, clerk of the diocese of Utrecht, fol. 151v (Pächt and Alexander ii. 443, pl. XLIII):

Fine border.

Fine historiated initial.

History

Origin: 1424 ; 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).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 628
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 404

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 317

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.