Shelfmark:

MS. Ital. b. 3

Author:

Title:

Register of members of the Scuola della Misericordia, Venice

Language:

Italian

Origin:

Italy Venice

Date:

Mid-15th cent., with additions to mid-16th cent.

Provenance:

Bought from Lawrence Witten Rare Books in 1980

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No

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Lawrence Witten Rare Books, catalogue 12, 1980, no. 35, with plates

Shelfmark:

MS. Ital. d. 5

Author:

Dante

Title:

Convivio

Language:

Italian

Origin:

Central(?) Italy

Date:

1463

Provenance:

Pierantonio di Benedetto Buonaparte, 16th cent.; the arms of the Bonaparte family of Florence are added

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O. Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2, Oxford, 1970, no. 280

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 526, II, pl. 616 (fol. 66r)

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MS. Ital. d. 30

Author:

Title:

Statutes of the guild of bakers and oven-keepers of Rome

Language:

Italian

Origin:

Italy Rome

Date:

c. 1534

Provenance:

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Yes

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Bodleian Library Record, 14, no. 1, Oct. 1991, 67-8

Shelfmark:

MS. Ital. e. 6

Author:

Dante

Title:

Divine Comedy

Language:

Italian

Origin:

Italy

Date:

c. 1400

Provenance:

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No

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Shelfmark:

MS. Ital. e. 9

Author:

Title:

Portolan

Language:

Italian

Origin:

Italy

Date:

15th cent.

Provenance:

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Yes

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Shelfmark:

MS. Ital. e. 13

Author:

Title:

'Roxarum odor vite', a collection of quotations from classical authors and the Bible

Language:

Latin, Italian

Origin:

Italy

Date:

1440

Provenance:

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Yes

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Bodleian Library Record, 2, no. 18, Feb 1942, 53

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 528, II, pl. 392 (fol. 29r)

Shelfmark:

MS. Ital. e. 16

Author:

Paolo de Trento

Title:

Spechio de' religiosi, instructions for Augustinian canonesses

Language:

Italian, Latin

Origin:

Italy Venice

Date:

1493-1501

Provenance:

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Yes

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B. C. Barker-Benfield, Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford: Concordance of Bodleian Shelfmarks for vols. 1-3 and Addenda, Oxford, 1974, 60

A. C. de la Mare, 'Further Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library', in La miniatura italiana tra gotico e Rinascimento, E. Sesti (ed.), I, 1985, no. 17, p. 136

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MS. Ital. e. 18

Author:

Niccolò da Corregio

Title:

Aurora

Language:

Italian

Origin:

Italy

Date:

15th cent., 1498(?)

Provenance:

Sotheby's 13 Dec. 1977, lot 54; bought by the Bodleian from Maggs Bros., Jan. 1978

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No

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A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435-1600 in Oxford Libraries, Oxford, 1984, I, no. 529, II, pl. 799 (fol. 5r)

Shelfmark:

MS. Ital. e. 19

Author:

(i) Bartolomew of Pisa; (ii) Cicero

Title:

(i) Dell' Indulgenza della Portiuncula; (ii) flyleaves from a Somnium Scipionis

Language:

Italian

Origin:

Italy

Date:

(i) 15th cent., first half; with an added receipt dated 1555; (ii) early 15th cent.

Provenance:

The Cicero flyleaves were probably written by Giovanni Aretino in the early 15th cent.; J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889); presented by him to the Plymouth Proprietary Library, sold by them at Sotheby's, 11 July 1978, lot 28, bought by the Bodleian

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Sotheby's, 11 July 1978, lot 28

Shelfmark:

MS. Ital. e. 20

Author:

Michele Savonarola (attributed to)

Title:

Primo libro De la vita Cristiana

Language:

Italian

Origin:

Italy, North-East(?)

Date:

15th cent., second half

Provenance:

Sotheby's 20 Nov. 1979, lot 288; bought by the Bodleian from Quaritch, Jan. 1980

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Sotheby's 20 Nov. 1979, lot 288

Shelfmark:

MS. Ital. f. 3

Author:

Agostino, abbot of S. Zeno, Pisa

Title:

Spiritual Letters to the nuns of S. Marta [CHECK] , Siena

Language:

Italian

Origin:

Italy

Date:

15th cent.

Provenance:

Quaritch codes

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Yes

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Bodleian Library Record, 4, no. 4, April 1953, 228