MS. D'Orville 78

Summary Catalogue no.: 16956

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine early humanist initials. Humanistic script attributable to Giovanni Aretino. Written after Poggio's discovery of these particular orations in 1417. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 211, pl. XIX)

History

Origin: 1418 (?) ; Italian, Florence

Record Sources

Summary description by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Summary Catalogue and supplementary sources.

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 57

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 4, p. 58

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 437

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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