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MS. Canon. Misc. 557

Summary Catalogue no.: 20033

Contents

1.
Poggio Bracciolini, De varietate fortunae
Language(s): Latin
2.
Poggio Bracciolini, De auaritia
Language(s): Latin
3.
Poggio Bracciolini, De nobilitate
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 866, pl. LXXVII:

Fine border.

Fine historiated initials.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, North

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. 859
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 405

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

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.