A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 149

Summary Catalogue no.: 18730

Contents

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

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

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

Last Substantive Revision

2025-02: Encode all information from printed catalogues.