MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 68
Summary Catalogue no.: 18649
Contents
, Pharsalia
Language(s): Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Decoration
Fine borders. fol. 1r
- Type full border
- Subject Floral designs, gold disks, partially erased coat of arms.
Fine historiated initials. fol. 1r
- Type initial C
- Subject Profile half-figure of the author, wearing a hood, hand raised.
- Type initial B
- Subject Julius Caeser (profile half-figure of a bearded man in armour, wreath on the head, hand raised).
Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 193, pl. XVIII)
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).
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)
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.