New Testament, Exultet — 13th century, end; Multiple places of origin

Title

New Testament, Exultet — 13th century, end; Multiple places of origin

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 18

Place of origin

France (?)

Italy

Date

13th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Decoration

Good historiated initials.

Good other initials.

Musical notation

Heavy square notation on 5 staves.

Binding

So-called ‘Sagredo’-binding; Italian (?), early eighteenth century.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.

Provenance

Franz Joseph von Hahn, bishop of Bamberg (d. 1748): evidence of added decoration, binding, later provenance. See Helmut Boese, ‘Über die 1747 in Venedig verkaufen ‘Sagredo’-Handschriften’, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 66, 1986, 269–309.

Identified by E. Pellegrin as a Visconti book, but the Visconti arms and inscription are a later addition carried out by the so-called ‘Master of the Canonici Fakes’ presumably added for von Hahn prior to the sale of part of his library by the Venetian bookseller Gianbattista Albrizzi in 1747. Sold by Albrizzi with the manuscripts of Gherardo Sagredo, procurator of San Marco; no. 110 in the catalogue of the sale (Boese, op. cit., p. 305).

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici, -1807

Title

New Testament and Exultet

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 18

Date

13th century, end

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume