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MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 33

Summary Catalogue no.: 19019

Contents

1.
Ps.-Augustine, Soliloquia animae ad Deum
Language(s): Latin
2.
Ps.-Augustine, Manuale
Language(s): Latin
3.
Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, works
Language(s): Latin
4.
Hugh of Fouilloy, De xii abusionibus claustri (De claustro animae, ii.11–23)
Language(s): Latin
5.
Ps.-Augustine, De XII abusiuis saeculi
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script by Bartholomaeus Paruta, in 1457, fol. 110v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 366, pl. XXXIV)

Decoration

Fine border.

Fine initials.

Fine penwork borders and initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 366, pl. XXXIV)

Binding

17th century?, Italian?: pasteboards; plain red velvet; spine lost, revealing paper spine-liners with fragments of post-medieval writing (numerical sums); no clasps, but fore-edge has cleaner areas left by two lost straps, each c. 20 mm. broad, evidently from a previous binding. Probably from Jacopo Soranzo’s collection (characteristic foliation). 187–188 × 125–127 × c. 25–27 mm. (book closed).

History

Origin: 1457 ; Italian, Naples (?)

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 (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970). Binding: B. C. Barker-Benfield, Bookbindings of Canonici manuscripts : a survey of early and non-standard bindings, mostly Italian, in the Canonici collection of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Oxford, privately printed, 2020).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 304
Quarto Catalogue, col. 305
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 326

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. 383

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2020-08-26: Binding description added.