MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 193

Summary Catalogue no.: 18774

Sallust, Catilina

Language(s): Latin

Sallust, Jugurtha

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 37 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 187 mm.

Layout

1 col., 39 lines, 160 × 105 mm.

Hand(s)

Fere-humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 378)

Decoration

Fine initials.

Fine penwork initials. Partly palimpsest, on documents of 14th century, second quarter, perhaps Venetian. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 378)

History

Origin: 1411–1412 ; Italian, Ferrara (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

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). Extent, dimensions and layout from Watson (1984).

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 196

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 181

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.

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