MS. D'Orville 101

Summary Catalogue no.: 16979

Virgil, Aeneid

Fragment: ii. 310 ('Insidie')-v. 359, v. 494- vi. 129 ('corpus amici')

With scholia and the 10-line arguments

This is the 'Codex Wallianus' of Burmann's edition

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 23 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 10.625 × 4.625 in.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander i. 482:

Good initials.

History

Origin: 12th century, middle ; France

Provenance and Acquisition

Owned by Harmannus van de Wall of Amsterdam; Catalogus variorum et insignum librorum ... quos ... collegit et reliquit Hermannus van de Wall, quorum publica auctio habebitur ... 1734, libri manuscripti in folio Q.

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751)

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 (1966)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 62

Surrogates

A facsimile of a page is given in R. Ellis's XX facsimiles from Latin MSS (1891)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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

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