MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 259
Summary Catalogue no.: 18840
Contents
1. (fol. 1)
, Memorabilia Note before book 10: 'Decimus hujus operis liber, qui et ultimus dicitur, vel negligentia vel malivolentia librariorum deperiit ; abbreviator vero titulos ejus habebat integre ; fartassis tamen de uno tantum, hoc est de prenomine, epythoma representabat.'
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 116)
, Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum ne ducat uxorem (= De nugis curialium, iv.3–5). ‘dicunt tamen aliqui, quod beatus Jeronimus hanc fecit epistolam’
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: ff. 119 in folio
Layout
2 cols.
Decoration
Fine borders.
Fine historiated initials. fol. 1r
- Type initial U
- Subject Profile portrait of the author, holding a book.
Fine initials. Attributed by C. Huter to Cristoforo Cortese . (Pächt and Alexander ii. 437, pl. XLII)
History
Record Sources
Description adapted (March 2021) from the following sources:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 437 [decoration, date, origin]
H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854 [contents, physical description]
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2021-03: Description revised to incorporate all information in Quarto and Pächt and Alexander