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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 49

Summary Catalogue no.: 18630

Contents

Virgil, Aeneid

With arguments and glosses; imperfect at beginning, begins at i. 24 "Id metuens, veterisque memor Saturnia belli."

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
i + 181 + i paper leaves.

Layout

One column of 28 lines, ruled in lead. 184 × 96 mm.

Hand(s)

One hand, Southern Textualis.

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue ink of between two and three lines in height for the summary that comes at the beginning of each book of the text.

Flourished initials in red and blue ink of between six and ten lines in height for the beginning of each book of the text.

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 Francesca Wynne and Abdulfatah Zakari as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 15th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 16th May 2025.

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Francesca Wynne and Abdulfatah Zakari as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 15th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 16th May 2025.