MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 101
Summary Catalogue no.: 18682
Contents
Comedies
, 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
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
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
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 164
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-02: Encode all information from printed catalogues.