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

MS. Canon. Misc. 550

Summary Catalogue no.: 20026

Contents

Leonardo Bruni, De bello Italico
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ii+102 + ii fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 170 mm.

Layout

1 col., 25 lines, 155 × 95 mm.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script attributable to Giovanni da Stia.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 262:

Good border.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 1452 ; Italian, Florence

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. 372

Last Substantive Revision

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