A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 193

Summary Catalogue no.: 18774

Contents

1.
Sallust, Catilina
Language(s): Latin
2.
Sallust, Jugurtha
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

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).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

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

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.