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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 48

Summary Catalogue no.: 18629

Contents

Virgil, Aeneid

Bk.i - bk. iv line 374; with arguments, marginal notes, and interlinear glosses.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper in quarto format, with watermark of a cross atop a circle, with the base of the cross bisecting the circle. Resembles Piccard DE4860-Ms1163_310.
i + 40 + i leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 285 × 200 × 25 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 280 × 185 mm.

Layout

One column of 33–34 lines, ruled in lead. 220 × 115 mm.

Hand(s)

Southern Textualis, black ink, fols. 1r–37r.

Southern Textualis, black ink, fols. 37v–40v.

Decoration

Coloured initials in red ink between two and five lines in height found on fols. 1r, 3r, 12v, and 24v.

Initials stroked with red ink on fols. 1r–8v.

Catchwords embellished in the ink of the text on fols. 8v, 16v, and 24v.

Enlarged, centred text found on fol. 12r.

Unfilled space at a height of four lines left for a coloured initial on fol. 35v.

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 130
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 318

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Ananya Kumar and Elizabeth Birch as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 22nd May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 28th May 2025.

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Ananya Kumar and Elizabeth Birch as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 22nd May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 28th May 2025.