MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 161
Summary Catalogue no.: 18742
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Prologue
Capitula, followed (fol. 6v) by T-O world map.
De Babilonia, cap. lxiii, ends fol. 106v, followed without break by two additional items:
Extract from Bede, Historia ecclesiastica, i.1
eTK 0742D; as pr. A. Riese, Geographi latini minores (1878) 9–14; also P. Schnabel, ‘Die Weltkarte des Agrippa’, Philologus 90 (1935), 425–31.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
1 col., 27 lines, written space 160–5 × 85–90 mm. ; ruled in ink with double vertical inner and outer bounding lines extending the full height of the page; written above top line.
Hand(s)
Written in humanistic script by the same scribe as MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 133 and Cologny, Foundation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 51 (A. C. de la Mare and L. Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito (2009), p. 384).
Decoration
Interlace initial, fol. 1r.
T-O world map, fol. 6v (later fifteenth-century addition?).
Fine miniature, fol. 7r, previously attributed to Leonardo Bellini or circle (Pächt and Alexander ii. 603, pl. LVIII), now to an anonymous Venetian or Paduan artist. Square frame, supported by two winged putti, containing initial S and two coins with profile heads of a woman and a young man (‘Diva Faustina’ and ‘Antonius hopilius’ [sic for Antoninus Pius], see J. J. G. Alexander, The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450–1600 (2016), p. 364 n. 171).
Three-line alternating red and blue initials at the beginning of chapters.
Chapter titles and marginal rubrics in carmine.
Binding
Modern binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Arms of Bernardo Bembo erased from fol. 7 and his ex libris from fol. 109v; annotations by him.
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805.
His brother Giuseppe Canonici, -1807.
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-10-04: Description revised and updated.