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MS. Ashmole 811

Summary Catalogue no.: 7179

Commissio of the Procurators of San Marco, Venice

Language(s): Italian and Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniature.

Border.

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 576, pl. LIV)

History

Origin: 15th century, end (after 1473) ; Italian, Venice

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. H. Black, A descriptive, analytical, and critical catalogue of the manuscripts bequeathed unto the University of Oxford by Elias Ashmole Esq...., Quarto Catalogues X, 1845). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).

Quarto Catalogue, col. 454

Quarto Catalogue, col. 455

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 2, p. 1129