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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 37

Summary Catalogue no.: 18618

Contents

1.
Juvenal, Satirae (with glosses)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good historiated initial.

fol. 2r

  • Type inital S
  • Subject Figure painted in red, in short tunic, cloak and cap with long streamers, holds the hand of another, twisted into the shape of initial S, apparently escaping or flying away.

Diagram, fol. 59v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 35, pl. IV)

fol. 59v

  • Type diagram
  • Subject Astronomical diagram.

fol. 8r

  • Type drawing, right margin
  • Subject Head of a bearded man.

fol. 29v

  • Type drawing, left margin
  • Subject Profile of a man.

History

Origin: 12th century, first half ; Italian

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 (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 126
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 127
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 318

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.