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MS. Ital. d. 5

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession): no detailed description available

Contents

Dante, Convivio
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
110 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 290 × 197 mm.
Foliation: Foliated in modern pencil: 1-113.

Layout

1 col., 32 lines, 190–195 × 100 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 280)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 280

Fine border.

Fine initial.

Binding

Bound in 18th(?)-century plain parchment over thin pasteboards; with the remains of two red wax ?seals on the lower cover; the spine inscribed 'DANTE | Convivio | MS. | del | 1465'.

History

Origin: 1463 ; Italian, Central (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

'Fine alla terza canzona di maggio a di 18 1463 [corrected from 1453]' (fol. 111r).

Pierantonio di Benedetto Buonaparte, 16th century; the blank space left by the scribe for a rubric has been inscribed by an early 16th-century hand 'Conuiuio di dante alighieri fiorentino | di pierantonio di benedetto. | buona parte | e delli amici parenti e di tutti quelli | che ferre uolessino seruire' (fol. 2r), and the arms of the Bonaparte family of Florence are added in the space left for a coat of arms in the original decoration (fol. 2r).

Dr. E. Moore, rector of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, inscribed 'E Moore | S Edmund Hall | Oxford | June 1880' (fol. 1r) (cf. MS. Ital. e. 6), inscribed by him with a note and partial family tree of Pierantonio Buonaparte (fol. 1v); bequeathed by him to the Bodleian, and given a provisonal Summary Cataloguenumber (now referring to a different manuscript), with a paper label printed 'S.C. 37409' in the top left corner of the upper pastedown.

Bequeathed by Moore to the Bodleian ('Donations: manuscripts', Oxford University Gazette (28 Feb. 1917), p. 330).

Record Sources

Peter Kidd, Checklist of Western Medieval Manuscripts Acquired 1916-; A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 526; unpublished typescript description by Peter Kidd, 1990s.

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 526

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable, and additional details from Peter Kidd draft description.