Giovanni Fontana — 1440 (new style, 1441: see Kranz, pp. 3–4); Italian, Udine
MS. Canon. Misc. 47
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Giovanni Fontana — 1440 (new style, 1441: see Kranz, pp. 3–4); Italian, Udine
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Misc. 47
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian, Udine
Date
1440 (new style, 1441: see Kranz, pp. 3–4)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
i + 222medieval leaves
Hands
Copied by Giovanni Fontana himself. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 975). Humanistic script.
Decoration
Diagrams, tables. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 975)
Coloured initials.
Rubrics.
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS.): wood boards, left bare in quarter-leather style; the original leather spine (lost) had extended across one third of each board and was secured with a vertical row of (lost) tightly-spaced nails, 1+12+1 (front) and 1+11+1 (back); central strap of red tawed leather, mostly lost, with a back-cover metal catch-plate moulded with ‘yh’s’ in a sunburst under monogram ‘SS[?]’. Spine of rough plain brown leather, ?18th century, Italian, now preserved inside front cover; again rebacked in light brown leather, 20th century, Bodleian. 290 218–220 c. 63 (book closed).
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Provenance
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Giuseppe Canonici , -1807
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Title
Giovanni Fontana, De trigono balistario (abbreviated)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Misc. 47
Date
1440
Language
Latin
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Miscellaneous
Giovanni Fontana, De trigono balistario (abbreviated)
