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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 142

Summary Catalogue no.: 18723

Contents

1.
Sallust, Catilina
Language(s): Latin
2.
Sallust, Jugurtha
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. Written by two hands, the second close to Jacobus de Machariis Venetus . (Pächt and Alexander ii. 517, pl. XLVIII)

Decoration

Fine border (partly repainted).

Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 517, pl. XLVIII)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, Venice

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

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). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 172
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 320

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.