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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 261

Summary Catalogue no.: 18842

Contents

Valerius Maximus, Memorabilia
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 140 + i fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 208 mm.

Layout

1 col., 39 lines, 192 × 107–110 mm.

Decoration

Fine initials, unfinished. Written in humanistic script by Tadeus Solacius 'Johanne Mauro Praetore ac Francisco Dedo praefecto' at Brescia in 1479, fol. 140v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 684, pl. LXVI)

History

Origin: 1479 ; Italian, Brescia

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).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 218
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 323

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 195

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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