MS. D'Orville 144
Summary Catalogue no.: 17022
Contents
Fol. 1 contains the dedicatory epistle of Ludovico Carbone to Borso d'Este from his 1471 printed edition of Pliny's Letters (Proctor 4134), but perhaps an addition (Pächt and Alexander ii. 397)
Physical Description
Hand(s)
Humanistic script. From fol. 38r written by Hieronymus de Stabellinis (Pächt and Alexander ii. 397)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Partly written by Hieronimus de Stabellinis; his ex libris, fol. 145v.
Perhaps used by Ludovico Carbo to prepare the editio princeps of 1471: the manuscript contains the edition's dedicatory epistle to Borso d'Este (perhaps an addition: Pächt and Alexander ii. 397); text possibly corrected by Carbo (Dora Johnson, 'The Manuscripts of Pliny's Letters', Classical Philology, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan., 1912), 66-75 at 73).
Arms, fol. 2: parti per fess azure and gules, overall a lion's paw natural accompanied by two eight-pointed stars or (unidentified)
Fol. 2: 'Ego Horatius Fuschus emj hunc librum Julijs duobus cum dimidio' (early 16th century); see also MS. D'Orville 179
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 (1765/6–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian
Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-01-05: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)