MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 149

Summary Catalogue no.: 18730

1. (fol. 1)

Justinus, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus

With preface and marginal notes.

Colophon: (fol. 125) 1466 tercio id. Jul. Ἰουστίνου ἐπιτομῶν Τρώγου Πομπηΐου τέλος

Language(s): Latin

2. (fol. 125v)

Festus, Breuiarium rerum gestarum populi Romani

With the letter to Valentinian.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 133 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 197 × 143 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 25-30 lines, 145–50 × 110 mm.

Hand(s)

The first quire, fols. 1-8, is in a different hand from fols. 9-125. Fols. 126 to the end are in the main hand and were probably written at the same time.

History

Origin: 1466 ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

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. 173

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. 174

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 320

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 173

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-02: Encode all information from printed catalogues.

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