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MS. Canon. Misc. 87

Summary Catalogue no.: 19563

Contents

3.
Basil the Great, Ad adolescentes (tr. Bruni )
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 80 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 175 × 115 mm.

Layout

1 col., 19 lines, 100 × 70 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script in 1474 by Bart. Squara at the age of 14, fol. 79v.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 614, pl. LIX:

Good historiated border.

Good initials.

History

Origin: 1474 ; Italian, Padua

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. 486
Quarto Catalogue, col. 487
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 401

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 295

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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