MS. Canon. Misc. 66

Summary Catalogue no.: 19542

Leonardo Bruni, De bello Punico

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

73 + ii fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 182 × 117 mm.

Layout

1 col., 29 lines, c. 123–127 × 65 mm.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 828:

Good initials. Humanistic script.

History

Origin: 1454 ; Italian, Treviso

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) , and Watson, Dated and Datable. Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 476

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 400

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 293

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-08: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.

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