MS. Add. A. 169
Summary Catalogue no.: 28749
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 110 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 137 mm.
Dimensions (written): 140 × c. 70 mm.
Layout
1 col., 18 lines.
Decoration
Coloured initial.
Spaces left for other initials.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Fol. 107: 'finis .M.CCCC.L.XXVII'. Ruling is on the versos of leaves only, which suggests an origin in north-east Italy.
Pressmark 'Kk. d. 21', fol. 110v and back pastedown; in the same series as the pressmark 'V. c. 4' in MS. Add. A. 168, also of Italian origin.
Purchased for £1 4s at Sotheby's on 20-21 June 1860, lot 119, along with eight other manuscripts 'formerly in the archives of two princely Roman families'
Record Sources
Adapted (2017) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts, and from the Summary Catalogue (1905).
Bibliography
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 9
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.