A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 104

Summary Catalogue no.: 18685

Contents

Terence, Comedies

With epitaph and arguments.

With interlinear glosses.

Colophon: Terencii Afri comici explicit Phormio feliciter die Mercurii decimo septimo mensis Decembri, 1448, indicione undecima

The date 1391 appears after an earlier comedy.

Language(s): Latin
Verses
Incipit: Quid pejus damno? Vulnus. Quid vulnere? morbus [six lines]
Incipit: Creverunt et opes, et opum furiosa cupido [eight elegiacs]
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
139 + ii fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 235 × 167 mm.

Layout

1 col., 27 lines, c. 155 × 95 mm.

History

Origin: 1448 ; Italian, North

Provenance and Acquisition

On fol. 140, the first of two parchment flyleaves, is a document dated March 1451 recording that 'Antonius filius ser delaidj[?] de caprino de sancto ⟨zenone⟩ ord' Veron'.' was created a notary: 'creatus fui publieus et autenticus notarius a prudentibus viris domino Antonio Donato de Canodasino [2] et ἃ Johanne Donato de d.donibus et ab Antonio Viella et a Johanne Michaele a Falcibus, et a Pasio de Turi et a Johanne Simone et a...... oniecho de ordine decano, omnibus examinatoribus ; die Jovis decimo octavo mensis Martii 1451 indicione quartadecima'. Also three documents relating to Verona, and the note '1485 die 16 Madii incepi examinare Petrum Antonium de Fuscis, pro quoque mense quatuor marcas'

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. 165
H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 165

Last Substantive Revision

2025-02: Encode all information from printed catalogues.