MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 148
Summary Catalogue no.: 19134
Contents
Language(s): Latin
1. (fol. 1)
, Antiquitates Judaicarum 2. (fol. 124v)
, Bellum Judaicum (fol. 215v)
Final rubric: Explicit liber Josippi
Colophon: | Annis ut carnem christus de uirgine sumpsit. | Undecies centum xl quinque peractis. | Dicti ueracis iosephus fuit historialis. | Nemo miretur⟨ ⟩ rarus si carus habetur. | Est huius prosa disserta nimis speciosa. | Ut moyses scripsit deus omnia quomodo finxit. | Post antiquorum uitam mores genitorum. | Hic iudeus erat christum iesumque sciebat. | Ipsum monstrantem studet et laudare iohannem.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
i + 215 + i leaves
Dimensions (leaf): 430 × 300 mm.
Layout
2 cols., 43 lines, written space 330 × 100 mm.
Hand(s)
Several hands.
Decoration
Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 34, pl. IV)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Erased ex libris of the Benedictine abbey of St Thomas, Acquanegra, dioc. of Brescia (s.xiv).
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Record Sources
Description adapted (2025) from the following sources:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 399
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 34
H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
Printed descriptions:
A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 399
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2025-07: Encode all information in printed catalogues.