Giovanni de Lusa — 1442; Italian (perhaps written at Kotorin present-day Montenegro)

Title

Giovanni de Lusa — 1442; Italian (perhaps written at Kotorin present-day Montenegro)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Ital. 223

Place of origin

Italian (perhaps written at Kotorin present-day Montenegro)

Date

1442

Language

Italian

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

166 + v fols.

Hands

Hybrida; written by Giovanni de Lusa, chancellor of Kotor, who also wrote MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 38 (q.v.)

Decoration

Penwork initials: 10 lines (fol. 10r), otherwise 7-8 lines at the beginning of books (blue with red flourishing and heraldry (?) in red: see provenance), typically 4 lines at the beginning of chapters (alternating blue with red flourishing and red with red flourishing).

Rubrics; alternating blue and red paraphs.

Binding

Standard Canonici binding of plain parchment over pasteboard.

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

The griffin rampant gules in the larger initials may refer to the arms of Grifo of Venice (cf. MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 38).

Jacopo Soranzo: characteristic endpapers.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Giovanni de Lusa, Fiore dell'Arte Rettorica

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Ital. 223

Date

15th century

Language

Italian

Physical extent

1 volume