MS. Bodl. 580
Summary Catalogue no.: 2190
Contents
Language(s): Latin
, Eclogues
Rubric: Francisci Petrarce laureati poete de Florentia Buccolicum carmen
In twelve parts.
At p. 80 follow nine hexameters on the Muses:
Incipit: Primum scire facit
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: vi + 86 pages
Dimensions (binding): 10.125 × 7.625 in.
Decoration
Fine borders
Fine historiated initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 645, pl. LXII)
- fol. 1r: initial M: half-figure of the author, holding an open book.
Fine initials (Pächt and Alexander ii. 645, pl. LXII)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
'Sum liber Roberti Clercj 1614.'
'Liber Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ ex dono Walkedeni Wood in artibus Magistri, e Coll. Reginæ. Sept. 6. 1622.'
Record Sources
Description adapted (Jan. 2021) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 645 [decoration, origin, date]
Summary Catalogue (1922)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-01-14: Description revised to incorporate all information in SC and Pächt and Alexander.