MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 101

Summary Catalogue no.: 18682

With the epitaph of Terence and arguments to the plays.

Colophon: ... Laus Deo. iii Kalendas Decembris 1.4.4.46[sic] (fol. 112) [another hand:] 'l'empore felici . multi numerantur amici, Si fortuna perit . nullus amieus erit

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 114 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 260 × 170 mm.

Layout

1 col., 30 lines, 160 × c. 95 mm.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script.

Decoration

Fine initials (defaced). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 384)

History

Origin: 1446 ; Italian, Verona (?) or Ferrara (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Fol. 113: '1448 Visto per me Tomaxo [sic] da pavoni[?] adi 18 decembris decembris.' Fol. 114: 'Vianini minischalchi. Terentius et amicorum' (s.xvi). The Minischalchi were a Veronese family. Pächt & Alexander assign to Ferrara on stylistic grounds.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted (Feb. 2025) from the following sources:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 164

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 384

H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 151

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 319

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

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