MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 286
Summary Catalogue no.: 18867
Contents
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: 234 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 405 × 283 mm.
Layout
2 cols., 51 lines, 258 × 80 mm.
Hand(s)
Written in humanistic script in 1456 whilst Dominus Dominicus Bragadenus was lecturing, fol. 234. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 493)
Decoration
Fine historiated border (unfinished). fol. 1r
- Type border
- Subject Two angels suporting a wreath, left blank to be filled with a coat of arms (pen sketch).
Fine initial. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 493) fol. 1r
- Type initial M
- Subject Gold half-page initial with white vine-stem decoration and nude human figures, climbing vine stems and bars of the initial, on blue, pink and green background.
Spaces left blank for initials thoughout the text, never filled in.
History
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).
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 201
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-05: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.