MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 21
Summary Catalogue no.: 18602
Contents
Breuiarium rerum gestarum populi Romani
, Colophon: (fol. 40v (39v)) ... explicit feliciter ... Anno domini ⟨M⟩ CCCC.XXXI die .xviii. Iunii. Vale.
First leaf of text missing.
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 39 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 118 × 75 mm.
Layout
1 col., 13 lines, written space 67 × 40 mm.
Hand(s)
The main scribe appears also to have written BL, MS. Harley 3925.
The final leaf, with the colophon, if in a different hand, probably identifiable as Ser Giovanni di Stia. Both scribes worked in Florence.
Decoration
Coloured initials.
History
Record Sources
Description adapted (Oct. 2019) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 154. Previously described in the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854).
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2019-10-07: Revised to include all information in Watson, Pächt and Alexander, and Quarto catalogue.