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MS. Canon. Misc. 560

Summary Catalogue no.: 20036

Contents

1.
Calendrical texts and extracts
Language(s): Latin
2.
Bede, De natura rerum
Language(s): Latin
3.
Martyrology.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 8, pl. I:

Good diagrams, one historiated. Good tables.

Good initials. Easter tables for the period 893–1063.

History

Origin: 11th century, middle (c. 1055–1074) ; Italian, Milan

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. 860
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 861–2
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 405

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 374
    S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 3: Rituals and Directories (typescript, 1957), p. 209

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.