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MS. Canon. Misc. 510

Summary Catalogue no.: 19986

Contents

Gregory the Great, Homiliae XL in euangelia (French translation)

Language(s): Middle French

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Written with calligraphic flourishes by Jehanin de Costimont.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 667:

Good miniatures.

Good borders.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 1438–9 ; French, Brussels (?)

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 (1966).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 825

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 410

Bibliography

Online resources:

JONAS: Répertoire des textes et des manuscrits médiévaux d'oc et d'oïl

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 365

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.