MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 232
Summary Catalogue no.: 18813
Contents
, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine border, initials. Written in humanistic script by Bartolomeo Paruta , fol. 54. (P&A ii. 483, pl. XLVI)
5-line pink initials on gold and blue background, decorated with acanthus leaves and gold disks on fols. 7v and 20v.
Alternating red and blue initials with contrasting purple and red penwork.
fol. 1r
- Type initial E(t)
- Subject 7-line pink initial, on gold and blue background, decorated with acanthus leaves and arabesque designs.
- Type full border
- Subject Gold bars, decorated with flowers and leaves; medallion with a bird; medallion with the arms of the Paruta family, Venice (?) (partly erased).
History
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).
