MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 232

Summary Catalogue no.: 18813

Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script by Bartolomeo Paruta , fol. 54. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 483)

Decoration

Fine border.

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).

Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 483, pl. XLVI)

fol. 1r

Type initial E(t)
Subject 7-line pink initial, on gold and blue background, decorated with acanthus leaves and arabesque designs.

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.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; 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. 209

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 322