MS. D'Orville 100

Summary Catalogue no.: 16978

Virgil, Aeneid

A fragment, covering i.516 ('Dissimulant') - iv.139, iv.500 - vi.213 ('ferebant')

With some glosses and the 10-line arguments

This is almost certainly the 'Codex Francianus alter' of Burmann's edition

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

ii + 56 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 10.375 × 6.5 in.

Condition

The signatures show that 60 leaves are wanting at the beginning. The ink in places is almost gone.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 256)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 256

Fine initials

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italy, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by Petrus Francius of Amsterdam (4° no. 895 in the Francius sale, 1705)

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751) (source of acquisition not recorded in MS. D'Orville 302).

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

Record Sources

Description adapted (March 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 61

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-03-25: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)

A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges