MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 79

Summary Catalogue no.: 18660

Statius, Thebais

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine historiated initials.

fol. 1r

Title Book I
Type initial F
Subject Half-figure of a man in a hat and gown bordered with ermine, holding a book.

fol. 12v

Title Book II
Type initial I
Subject A man in a tunic and hat.

fol. 24v

Title Book III
Type initial A
Subject Half-figure of a bearded man, holding a book.

fol. 49v

Title Book V
Type initial P
Subject Half-figure of a bearded man, holding a book.

fol. 61v

Title Book VI
Type initial N
Subject Half-figure of a man in a cloak and hood, holding a book.

fol. 76v

Title Book VII
Type initial U
Subject Half-figure of a young man.

fol. 90r

Title Book VIII
Type initial U
Subject Half-figure of a bearded man, holding an open book and reading.

fol. 116v

Title 'Quatuor aflictis ducibus...'
Type initial Q
Subject Half-figure of a man, pointing to the text.

fol. 117r

Title Book X
Type initial O
Subject Half-figure of an old man, holding a scroll.

fol. 131r

Title Book XI
Type initial P
Subject Half-figure of a man, holding a book.

fol. 144r

Title Book XII
Type initial N
Subject Half-figure of a bearded man, seated at desk.

Fine initials. Close in style to the school of Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna . (Pächt and Alexander ii. 135, pl. XIII)

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; Italian, Bologna

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. 144

Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 319

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.

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