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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 225

Summary Catalogue no.: 18806

Contents

Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 1 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 255 × 177 mm.

Layout

1 col., 32 lines, 170 × 115 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script in 1462 by Antonius F(arina), notary and citizen of Ferrara, fol. 154v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 392)

Decoration

Good initials.

Good border with arms, in a different style, perhaps added. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 392)

History

Origin: 1462 ; Italian, Ferrara

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. 207
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 322

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 189

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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