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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 131

Summary Catalogue no.: 18712

Physical Description

Composite: fols. 2–84b || fols. 85–156

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 131 – Part 1

Contents

1.
Xenophon, Memorabilia (tr. Bessarion )
Language(s): Latin (Bessarion's inscription in Greek)

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 1453 ; Italian, Rome (?)

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 131 – Part 2

Contents

1.
Origo gentis Romanae.
Language(s): Latin
2.
De uiris illustribus urbis Romae.
Language(s): Latin
3.
Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

History

Origin: 1450s-1460s ; Italian, Rome (?)

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (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. 166
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 320

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 170 (fols. 2-84b)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.