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MS. D'Orville 146

Summary Catalogue no.: 17024

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Lucian, Calumniae non temere credendum (Latin translation by Lapus Castelliuncus)
Rubric: Luciani de fide non facile calumniæ adhibenda liber...
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 15)
Theophrastus, Characteres

Translated into Latin by Lapo de Castiglionchio

Rubric: Ad... d. Franciscum Patauinum... Lapi Castelliunculi præfatio in Theophrasti libellum de Impressionibus
Language(s): Latin
3. (fol. 40)
Cornelius Nepos, De uiris illustribus
Rubric: Ęmililius Probus de excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentium

The lives of Timoleon, Hamilcar, Hannibal, with the preface and an extract from the Life of Gracchus 'ex Cornelij Nepotis libro'

Language(s): Latin
4. (fol. 60)
Ps.-Aurelius Victor (Ps.-Pliny the Younger), De uiris illustribus
Rubric: Gaii Plinii Secundi oratoris Veronensis de uiris illustribus ...
Language(s): Latin
5. (fol. 99v)
Sextus Rufus, Breuiarium rerum gestarum populi Romani
Rubric: Publij Sexti Ruffi libellus feliciter incipit de gestis Romanorum ad Valentinianum
Language(s): Latin
6. (fol. 117)
Benvenutus de Imola, Augustalis libellus
Rubric: Liber Augustalium per d.Franciscum Petrarcham
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
i + 149 leaves (146 + ii medieval leaves)
Dimensions (binding): 9.125 × 6.25 in.
Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 150 mm.

Layout

1 col., 22 lines, 133 × 70 mm.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script, written by Ludovico Carbone ('Lod. Carbo et scripsit et recognouit 1483 Julio mense', fol. 146v) (Pächt and Alexander ii. 430)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 430

Good initial

History

Origin: 1483 ; Italy, Ferrara

Provenance and Acquisition

'O. M.' is on fol. 1 (16th century)

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 (May 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 72

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 440

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-05-03: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)