The shelfmark MS. Ital. was adopted for miscellaneous Italian-language
manuscripts acquired from 1887 onwards, as part of the classification system
introduced by the then Bodley's Librarian E. W. B. Nicholson (see R. W. Hunt in
Summary Catalogue, vol. I, pp. xlv-xlvi). The manuscripts are subdivided by
size, from 'a' (largest, 20 inches and over) to 'g' (smallest, 5 inches and
under).
| Shelfmark |
MS. Ital. b. 3 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
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Not in SC (late accession): no description
available
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| Summary of contents |
Register of members of the Scuola della Misericordia,
Venice.
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| Language |
Italian |
| Origin |
Italian, Venice |
| Date |
15th century, middle, with additions to 16th century,
middle
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| Material |
parchment |
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| Decoration |
| Illuminated borders with miniatures of saints. |
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Provenance |
Bought from Laurence Witten Rare Books in 1980.
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| Bibliography |
| 1980 |
|
| Laurence Witten Rare Books, catalogue 12, 1980, no. 35,
with plates
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Ital. d. 5 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late accession): no description
available
|
| Summary of contents |
Dante, Convivio.
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| Language |
Italian |
| Origin |
Italian, Central (?) |
| Date |
1463 |
| Material |
paper |
|
|
| Decoration |
| Fine border, initial. Written in humanistic script. (P&A ii.
280)
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Provenance |
Pierantonio di Benedetto Buonaparte, 16th century; the arms of
the Bonaparte family of Florence are added.
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| Bibliography |
| 1984 |
|
| 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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| Shelfmark |
MS. Ital. e. 13 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late accession): description
unpublished, only available in Library
|
| Summary of contents |
'Roxarum odor vite', a
collection of Latin quotations from classical authors and the Bible with
Italian commentary.
|
| Language |
Latin, Italian |
| Origin |
Italian |
| Date |
1440 |
| Material |
paper |
|
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| Decoration |
| Spaces left blank for initials. |
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| Bibliography |
| 1984 |
|
| 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)
|
|
| 1942 |
|
| Bodleian Library Record, 2,
no. 18, Feb. 1942, 53
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Ital. e. 16 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late accession): description
unpublished, only available in Library
|
| Summary of contents |
Paolo da Trento, Spechio de religiosi
... sopra li tre vodi dele religione (instructions for Augustinian
canonesses).
|
| Language |
Italian, Latin |
| Origin |
Italian, Venice |
| Date |
1493-1501 |
| Material |
parchment |
|
|
| Decoration |
| Good historiated initials, borders, perhaps by the 'Maestro de'
giuramenti'.
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|
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| Bibliography |
| 1985 |
|
| 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, Florence, 1985, no. 17, p. 136
|
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| 1974 |
|
| 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
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Ital. e. 18 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late accession): no description
available
|
| Summary of contents |
Niccolò da Corregio, Aurora.
|
| Language |
Italian |
| Origin |
Italian |
| Date |
15th century, 1498 (?) |
| Material |
paper |
|
Provenance |
Sotheby's, 13 Dec. 1977, lot 54; bought by the Bodleian from
Maggs Bros., Jan. 1978
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|
|
| Bibliography |
| 1984 |
|
| 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)
|
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| Shelfmark |
MS. Ital. e. 19 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late accession): no description
available
|
| Summary of contents |
Bartholomew of Pisa, Dell' Indulgenza
della Portiuncula. || Cicero, Somnium
Scipionis (flyleaves).
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| Language |
Italian |
| Origin |
Italian |
| Date |
15th century, first half; with an added receipt dated
1555 || 15th century, early
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| Material |
paper ||
parchment
|
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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 the Library at Sotheby's, 11
July 1978, lot 28, bought by the Bodleian.
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| Bibliography |
| 1996 |
|
| Albinia C. de la Mare, 'Vespasiano da Bisticci as producer
of classical manuscripts in fifteenth-century Florence', in
Medieval manuscripts of the Latin classics: production
and use, eds. Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel & Margaret M. Smith
(Proceedings of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Leiden, 1993),
Los Altos Hills, CA: Anderson-Lovelace, and London: The Red Gull Press,
1996, pp. 166-207, at p. 169n.
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| 1978 |
|
| Sotheby's, 11 July 1978, lot 28 |
|
| Shelfmark |
MS. Ital. e. 20 |
| Summary Catalogue no.
|
Not in SC (late accession): no description
available
|
| Summary of contents |
First book of Ordine della vita
christiana written in 1333 by Simone Fidati da Cascia (1285-1348), a
preacher and a friar of the order of St Augustin, during his stay in Florence
(attributed in an added post-medieval title to Michele Savonarola). Wrapped in
a parchment leaf from an Italian lectionary.
|
| Language |
Italian |
| Origin |
Italian, North-East (?) |
| Date |
15th century, second half and 14th century, early
(lectionary)
|
| Material |
paper, parchment
(lectionary)
|
|
|
| Decoration |
| Spaces left for initials. Initial with penwork (lectionary). |
|
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|
Provenance |
Sotheby's, 20 Nov. 1979, lot 288; bought by the Bodleian from
Quaritch, Jan. 1980.
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| Bibliography |
| 1979 |
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| Sotheby's, 20 Nov. 1979, lot 288 |
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