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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 171

Summary Catalogue no.: 18752

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Ps.-Phalaris, Epistles (tr. Francesco Aretino, with proem to Malatesta Novello)

138 letters, followed by four others, with dedicatory letter to King Alfonso.

Colophon: Laus Deo ejusque Unigenito una eum sancto Spiritu. Phalaridis tyrampni Siculorum, ac philosophorum dignissimi epistole per Franciseum Aretinum e Greco in Latinum traducte expliciunt feliciter; scripte vero per me fratrem Bellinum anno domini .1469. die .12. aprilis (fol. 66)
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 67)
Ps.-Sextus Aurelius Victor, De uiris illustribus
Rubric: Caii Plinii Secundi, oratoris eximii de viris illustribus clarissimus liber
Colophon: Finis. Frater bellinus scripsit; opusculum de viris illustribus a Caio Plinio editum explicit (fol. 100)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 100 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 163 × 115 mm.

Layout

1 col., 22 lines, 95 × 62-5 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script in 1469 by Frater Bellinus , fol. 100v.

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 845)

fol. 1r

  • Type initial D
  • Subject Pink initial on gold and blue background, decorated with floral designs and gold disks.
  • Type border, lower margin
  • Subject Floral designs, gold disks, laurel wreath with a defaced coat of arms.

fol. 71r

  • Type initial P
  • Subject Pink initial on gold and blue background, decorated with floral designs and gold disks.

History

Origin: 1469 ; Italian, North-east

Provenance and Acquisition

The undated part of the MS, Pliny's De viris illustribus, has every appearance of having been written at about the same time as the dated part.

Arms, defaced, fol. 1.

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted (2025) from the following sources:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 177
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 845
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. 185
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 177

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-03: Incorporate all information from printed catalogues.