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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 254

Summary Catalogue no.: 18835

Contents

1.
Cicero, Orationes in C. Verrem
Language(s): Latin
2.
Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam
Language(s): Latin
3.
Cicero, Orationes philippicae
Language(s): Latin
4.
Ps.-Sallust; Ps.-Cicero, Inuectiuae
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i+137 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 323 × 225 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 40-5 lines, 228-230 × 145 mm.

Hand(s)

Written in humanistic script by Jacobus Naplave at Sebenico in 1458, fol. 77, and 1460, fol. 137v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 832)

Decoration

Good border.

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 832)

History

Origin: 1458–1460 ; Dalmatian, Šibenik (Sebenico)

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). Extent, dimensions and layout from Watson (1984).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 193

Last Substantive Revision

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