MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 229

Summary Catalogue no.: 18810

Cicero, De officiis

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: i+ 60 +i fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 180 mm.

Layout

1 col., 32 lines, 167 × 115 mm.

Decoration

Fine initial. Written in humanistic script by Antonius Farina, notary of Ferrara, fol. 60. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 391, pl. XXXVIII)

History

Origin: 1461 ; 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. 208

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 322

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 190

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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