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MS. Canon. Misc. 459

Summary Catalogue no.: 19935

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper
Extent: 169 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 335 × 230 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 48 lines, column space 215–217 × 70 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in semi-humanistic script by Thomas 'de plebe ag'di', fol. 169v.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 499 (defaced):

Good border.

Good historiated initial.

Good other initial.

History

Origin: 1464 ; Italian, Venice

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. 783
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 409

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 355

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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