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

MS. Canon. Misc. 543

Summary Catalogue no.: 20019

Contents

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 28 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 150 mm.

Layout

1 col., 19-20 lines, 140–145 × 75–80 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 921:

Penwork initial.

History

Origin: 1420 ; Italian

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. 371

Last Substantive Revision

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