MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 216

Summary Catalogue no.: 18797

Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Decoration

Good border, initial. Humanistic script. (P&A ii. 860)

fol. 1r

Type initial E
Subject Gold initial, interlace, floral designs.
Type borde, left margin
Subject Interlace, floral designs.

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, North-east

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).

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 204

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 322

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas/Mapping Manuscript Migrations 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.'

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