MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 120
Summary Catalogue no.: 18701
Contents
1. (fol. 1)
, Constantinopolis Incipit: Primus habet causam excidii fraudesque Pelasgum
Incipit: In magnos postquam cecidit mea musa labores
Explicit: Venditur et dominos distracta est passa superbos
Incipit: (epilogue) Non ego laude pari haec magni scripsisse poetae
Followed by four verses: "Brixia me civem Ubertinum Puscula honesta Gens tulit haec ausus talia quae cecini ; Me Constantini studiis urbs dulcis habebat, Cum cecidit bello barbara praeda fui."
Colophon: Finis die secundo mensis Aprilis 1479. Explicit liber quartus et ultimus Constantinopoleos.
Language(s): Latin
Followed by two epigrams on Pusculus by Iohannes Michael Albertus Carrariensis (Giovanni Michele Alberto Carrara)
Incipit: Constantini urbis casus, quem, Poscule, vates
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 55v)
, De laudibus Brixiae Rubric: De laudibus Brixiae oratio
Incipit: Ad conspectum vestrum, viri Brixlani, accedere cum instituissem
Explicit: Brixiaque ut foelix superet per secula euncta
Colophon: Finis 1479 die 12 Madii
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
79 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 153 mm.
Layout
1 col., 28 lines, 133 × c. 80–90 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in humanistic script, fol. 55, by 'Mr. G.' (?). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 891)
Decoration
Initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 891)
History
Record Sources
Description adapted (Feb. 2025) from the following sources:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 168
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 891
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. 168
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-02: Encode all information from printed catalogues.