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MS. Canon. Misc. 280

Summary Catalogue no.: 19756

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 1–67 || fols. 68–69 || C

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

MS. Canon. Misc. 280 – Part 1

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 960:

Miniatures (coloured maps). Written in humanistic script partly by Johannes Franciscus domini Cataldini de Callio.

History

Origin: 1474 ; Italian

MS. Canon. Misc. 280 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Ciriaco d'Ancona, Epistolae (fragments)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 961:

Miniatures (drawings) deriving from Cyriaco d'Ancona. Written in humanistic script partly by Johannes Franciscus domini Cataldini de Callio, fol. 63r.

History

Origin: c. 1474 ; Italian, Cagli (?)

MS. Canon. Misc. 280 – Part 3

Contents

1.
Poggio Bracciolini, De varietate fortunae
Language(s): Latin
2.
Pomponius Mela, Cosmographia
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 15th century ; Italian

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (1854). Parts 1, 2: decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 645–6
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 405

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (19 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 321 (fols. 1-69c)

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.