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MS. Canon. Misc. 438

Summary Catalogue no.: 19914

Contents

Livy, Second and Third Decades (tr. Pierre Bersuire )
Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Written by Sevestre Durant with calligraphic flourishes.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 636:

Good miniatures.

Good borders.

Good initials.

History

Origin: c. 1400 ; French

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 (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 765
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 408

Bibliography

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.