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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 193

Summary Catalogue no.: 18774

Contents

1.
Sallust, Catilina
Rubric: Liber Crispi Salustii Katelinarii
Language(s): Latin
2.
Sallust, Jugurtha
Colophon: Explicit liber Salustii Crispi, qui dicitur, Jugurthinus, m.ccccxii. die vii. kal. Marcii complevi feliciter hoc volumen, quod scripsi in mensibus tribus, incoavi enim x. kal. Decembris, in die sanete Cecilie, virginis et martyris, et supradicto die explevi tercia hora noctis.
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Parchment. Partly palimpsest, on documents of 14th century, second quarter, perhaps Venetian.
Extent: 37 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 187 mm.

Layout

1 col., 39 lines, 160 × 105 mm.

Hand(s)

Fere-humanistic script by the same scribe as MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 230 (Pächt and Alexander ii. 378)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 378:

Fine initials.

Fine penwork initials.

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

Description adapted (2025) from the following sources: A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 181 Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 378 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. 196
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 321

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

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

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-03: Incorporate all information from printed catalogues.