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MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 138

Summary Catalogue no.: 19124

Contents

Lactantius, works
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine border.

Fine initials. Written in humanistic script by N. Berti in 1458, fol. 216v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 267, pl. XXIV)

History

Origin: 1458 ; Italian, Florence

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, col. 370
Quarto Catalogue, col. 371
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 329

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 398

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.