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

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).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

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

Last Substantive Revision

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