MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 152
Summary Catalogue no.: 18733
Contents
1. (fol. 1)
, Ars de nomine et uerbo Rubric: Procae, Grammatici illustris, de nomine et verbo liber
Final rubric: (fol. 15) Phocae grammatici illustris de nomine et verbo liber explicit, M.cccc.lxx.
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 16)
, Grammar Rubric: Georgii Trebesontii compendium grammatices ad Andream filium
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 77 leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 233 × 160 mm.
Layout
Fols. 1-15: 26-30 lines, 1 col., 155 × 100 mm.
Hand(s)
Humanistic script. After fol. 1 line 12 the hand changes from a humanistica textualis to a humanistica cursiva.
Decoration
Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 505)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The rest of the book is undated but the cursive hand is one that appears in it, and the decoration is similar to that of the first part.
A coat of arms has been excised from fol. 1.
Venice, Carthusian abbey: fol. ii v, Iste liber est domus Carthusiensis venetiarum' (s.xv).
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Record Sources
Adapted (Feb. 2025) from the following sources:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 174 (fols. 1-15)
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 505
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. 174 (fols. 1-15)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-02: Encode all information from printed catalogues.