MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 14
Summary Catalogue no.: 18595
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 64 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 163 mm.
Layout
1 col., 27 lines; ruled space 163 × 102 mm.
Hand(s)
Fere-humanistica
Decoration
Fine historiated border, fol. 1r: foliage; shield left empty to be filled with a coat of arms; young man in red tunic (badly rubbed).
Fine initial (partly rubbed), fol. 1r: initial H, pink initial on gold background, infilled with a figure of a young woman (Penelope)
Sketch, fol. 64v, 15th century, armed man on horseback
fol. 64v, penwork initial with a face of a bearded man.
Coloured initials, rubrics.
(Pächt and Alexander ii. 774)
Binding
Plain parchment over pasteboards, Italian, 18th(?) century.
History
Record Sources
Description adapted by Matthew Holford (August 2022) from the following sources, with additional physical description:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 774
H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854).
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-08: Description revised for publication on Digital Bodleian.