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

MS. Canon. Misc. 542

Summary Catalogue no.: 20018

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 290 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 230 × 152 mm.

Layout

2 cols., 40 lines, column space 150–153 × 43 mm.

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).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

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

Last Substantive Revision

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