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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 216

Summary Catalogue no.: 18797

Contents

Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 860)

Decoration

Good border.

  • Type border, left margin
  • Subject Interlace, floral designs.

Good initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 860)

fol. 1r

  • Type initial E
  • Subject Gold initial, 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 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.