MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 218

Summary Catalogue no.: 18799

Cicero, De oratore

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 120 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 282 × 185 mm.

Layout

1 col., 28 lines, c. 205 × 105 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Angelus Vadius in humanistic script in Novigrad, fol. 120v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 950)

Decoration

Fine historiated border.

fol. 1v

Type border, lower margin
Subject Three putti support a coat of arms (or an eagle displayed and crowned sable, della Pusterla, Milan (?))

Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 950, pl. LXXX)

History

Origin: 1451 ; Dalmatian, Novigrad

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). Extent, dimensions and layout from Watson (1984).

Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 204

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 322

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 187

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.

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