MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 274
Summary Catalogue no.: 18855
Contents
, De re militari
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine miniature, borders, initials. Written in humanistic script by Jacobus Curlus on the order of Alfonso V , fol. 115v. (P&A ii. 363, pl. XXXV) fol. 1v
- Type miniature
- Subject A knight on horseback (Alfonso V of Aragon, I of Naples (?)).
- Type full border
- Subject Floral designs; two angels support a shield with the arms of Aragon and Calabria quartered.
History
Record Sources
Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854) and supplementary sources.
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Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (5 images from 35mm slides)