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MS. Canon. Misc. 566

Summary Catalogue no.: 20042

Contents

1.
Rhasis, Liber Almansoris (part ix; tr. Gerardus de Solo)
Language(s): Latin
4.
Medical recipes
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper

Hand(s)

Written by Magister Antonius, son of Magister Johannes de Racanetis, at Capo d'Istria.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 466, pl. XLV:

Fine border.

Fine historiated initial.

History

Origin: 1443–1444 ; Italian, Venice (?)

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, cols. 865–6
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. 375

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.