MS. D'Orville 76
Summary Catalogue no.: 16954
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Physical Description
Hand(s)
Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 698)
Decoration
By the Master of the Vitae imperatorum. Pächt and Alexander ii. 698, Pl. LXVIII:
Fine borders.
Fine historiated initials
Other initials fol. 1r
- Type initial A
- Subject Teacher, seated, with a book open on a lectern, addresses two students seated on a bench
- Type full border
- Subject Floral designs; arms of Bartolomeo Visconti, bishop of Novara, overpainted with the arms of a member of the family of Tournon
Binding
Red morocco with gold tooling (17th century ?)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Arms of Bartolomeo Visconti, bishop of Novara, fol. 1 with his motto, 'Quo difficilius eo preclarius'
Arms overpainted with the arms of a member of the Touron family.
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
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2024-03-25: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1897)