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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 240

Summary Catalogue no.: 18821

Contents

Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 96 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 228 × 160 mm.

Layout

1 col., 30 lines, 183-190 × 85 mm.

History

Origin: 1453 ; Italian, Padua

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).

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 192

Last Substantive Revision

2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.