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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 228

Summary Catalogue no.: 18809

Contents

1.
Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Language(s): Latin
2.
Boethius, De differentiis topicis (bk. iv)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script by two hands. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 715, pl. LXIX)

Decoration

Fine border.

  • Type full border
  • Subject Gold bars, decorated with grotesque aiming a bow, animals, birds, leaves and gold disks.

Fine initial.

fol. 1r

  • Type initial E(t)
  • Subject Pink initial on gold background, decorated with coiled stems, flowers and leaves.

Sketches, fol. 67v, 15th century, end. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 715, pl. LXIX)

fol. 67v

  • Type drawing
  • Subject Sketches of feet and hands, 15th century, end.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italian, Milan

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. 208
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 322

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

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.