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Ps.-Augustine, Bernardus Silvestris — 1437; Italian, Venice (?)

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 4

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Title

Ps.-Augustine, Bernardus Silvestris — 1437; Italian, Venice (?)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 4

Associated place

Italian

Place of origin

Italian, Venice (?)

Date

1437

Language

Latin

Contents

Ps.-Augustine Sermones ad fratres in eremo
Meditation
Ps.-Augustine Soliloquia animae ad deum
Epistula Lentuli
Bernardus Silvestris Epistola rei familiaris

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Hands

Written in humanistic script in 1437, fol. 199. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 462)

Decoration

Good border.

Historiated initial (damaged). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 462)

Binding

18th century, Italian, a standard style in the Canonici collection (?archaizing): wood boards with large squares; diced reddish-brown leather, tooled with blind lines and one roll to form a panel with a central lozenge shape but no centrepiece; spine with simple gilt lines and green-leather label with gilt title, and ‘COD.MEM.’ in gilt tooled directly on the spine. 183–185 134–136 c. 55 (book closed).

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

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Title

Augustine, etc.

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 4

Summary

Ps.-Augustine, Sermones ad fratres in eremo

Meditation

Ps.-Augustine, Soliloquia animae ad deum

Epistula Lentuli

Bernardus Silvestris, Epistola rei familiaris

Date

1437

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume

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Collection contents

Canonici Manuscripts

Canonici Latin Patristic

Augustine, etc.

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  • Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, pseudo

  • Bernard Silvestris

  • Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805

  • Canonici, Giuseppe (d. 1807)

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