MS. Canon. Misc. 456

Summary Catalogue no.: 19932

William of Heytesbury, Regulae solvendi sophismata (with commentaries of Gaietanus de Thienis and ' Messinus ')

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 123 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 327 × 235 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 37 lines, column space 240–245 × 65 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 842:

Initials. Written in humanistic script by Ludovicus ser Angeli de Auximo, i.e. Ludovico d'Osimo , studying under Menghus Blanchellus ( Mengo Bianchelli , b. Faenza 1440, d. 1520) at Ferrara, fol. 123v.

History

Origin: 1467 ; Italian, North

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. 780

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 409

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 352

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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