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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 230

Summary Catalogue no.: 18811

Contents

1.
Cicero, works
Language(s): Latin
2.
Cicero, speeches
Language(s): Latin
3.
Ps.-Sallust; Ps.-Cicero, Inuectiuae
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Fere-humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 377)

Decoration

Fine border.

Fine initials. Attributed by C. Huter to Cristoforo Cortese .

fol. 2r

  • Type initial Q(vintus)
  • Subject Pink initial, on gold and blue background, decorated with two putti, grotesques, leaves and gold disks.

fol. 39r

  • Type initial O
  • Subject Pink initial, on gold and blue background, decorated with acanthus leaves and gold disks.

Fine penwork initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 377, pl. XXXVI)

History

Origin: c. 1405–1406 ; Italian, Venice

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
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 209
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.