MS. Canon. Misc. 440

Summary Catalogue no.: 19916

Avicenna, Canon medicinae (tr. Gerard of Cremona , bk. iii)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 245 + i fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 410 × 298 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 48 lines, column space 255-260 × 85 mm.

History

Origin: 1464 ; [Padua?, Italy]

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 (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854)

Quarto Catalogue, col. 766

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 408

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 347

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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