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MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 162

Summary Catalogue no.: 19148

Contents

1.
Lactantius, Diuinae institutiones
Language(s): Latin
2.
Lactantius, De ira Dei
Language(s): Latin
3.
Lactantius, De opificio Dei
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine initials. Mutilated, and initials on fol. 144v and 198v replaced with copies. Humanistic script by Ubertus de Ghiringhelis in 1461 for himself. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 730, pl. LXX)

History

Origin: 1461 ; Italian, Lombardy

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, cols. 385–6
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 329

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 400

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.