Paulus Pergulensis — 15th century, first half; Italian, North
MS. Canon. Misc. 176
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Paulus Pergulensis — 15th century, first half; Italian, North
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Misc. 176
Associated place
Venice
Italian
Place of origin
Italian, North
Date
15th century, first half
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Decoration
Initial.
Good penwork borders. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 797)
Binding
A composite binding, with part of an early wrapper preserved inside the 18th-century binding:
15th century, by or before 1451, Italian, Venice?: fol. 76, a thick parchment leaf now serving an end flyleaf, was very likely the lower cover of a medieval wrapper – the top, fore-edge and bottom edges with any folds now trimmed away, but retaining a vertical fold from a former spine-edge. Positioned at what might have been approx. the centre of this outside back cover, fol. 76v, is an inscription in neat humanistic capitals, ‘.FORT.RED.’ ( ‘Fortuna redux’ or ‘Fortunae reduci’), a standard classical motto for Fortune bringing a happy return. Fol. 76r has a note by Bernardo Bembo with date recording the book’s purchase for three gold ducats on 18 Dec. 1450/51. 279–80 c. 215 c. 16–18 (thickness of text-block without covers).
(current binding) 18th century, Italian, Venice, a standard style of Jacopo Soranzo’s collection: pasteboards; parchment, here without turn-in flaps; covers undecorated; two gilt red-leather title-labels on spine; no ties or clasps; edges plain, discoloured; paste-downs and flyleaves of carta bassanese, designed with a background grid or trellis of broad red horizontal lines, overlaid with a bold pattern of flowers and large acanthus-like leaves in blue, red and ochre-yellow. 289–90 221–5 c. 24–26 (book closed).
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Provenance
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Giuseppe Canonici , -1807
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Title
Paulus Pergulensis, Dubia super consequentiis Strode and In regulas insolubilium Heytesbury
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Misc. 176
Date
15th century, first half
Language
Latin
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Miscellaneous
Paulus Pergulensis, Dubia super consequentiis Strode and In regulas insolubilium Heytesbury
