A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Misc. 456

Summary Catalogue no.: 19932

Contents

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).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

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

Last Substantive Revision

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