MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 182
Summary Catalogue no.: 18763
Contents
, De consolatione philosophiae
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Good border.
Good historiated initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 127) fol. 1r
- Type initial C
- Subject Window of a prison cell, showing heads of Boethius and Philosophy.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Erased arms of original owner, fol. 1
Erased ex libris of Cardinal Domenico Grimani d. 1523.
No. '1232' on fol. 1, 15th- or 16th-century.
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.