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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 279

Summary Catalogue no.: 18860

Contents

1.
Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina ('extract form')
Language(s): Latin
2.
Astronomical excerpts from Macrobius and Pliny.
Language(s): Latin
3.
Grammatical treatises
Language(s): Latin
4.
Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium,

1–88 (fragmentary)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good diagrams. (Pächt and Alexander i. 425)

History

Origin: 9th century, late, or 10th century ; French, Auxerre (?)

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 (1966).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, cols. 229–30
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 231
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 323

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.