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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 237

Summary Catalogue no.: 18818

Contents

1.
Cicero, De officiis
Language(s): Latin
2.
Cicero, De senectute
Language(s): Latin
3.
Cicero, De amicitia
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script.

Decoration

Good border.

Good initials (defaced). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 260)

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italian, Central (?)

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. 210
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 322

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-04-23: Sebastian Dows-Miller. Added content in handDesc.