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MS. Canon. Misc. 542

Summary Catalogue no.: 20018

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 275:

Good borders, mutilated. Written in humanistic script by Honofrius, son of Petrus of San Gimignano, fol. 290.

History

Origin: 1460 ; Italian, Tuscany

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. 851
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 410

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 370

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.