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MS. Add. A. 169

Summary Catalogue no.: 28749

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Horace, Carmina
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 87)
Horace, Epodi
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 105)
Horace, Carmen saeculare
Language(s): Latin

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

Origin: 1477 ; Italy, North-east

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).
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 504

Bibliography

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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