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MS. Digby 144

Summary Catalogue no.: 1745

Contents

Livy, Ab urbe condita (Third decade)
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. Corrected and rubricated by Ranerius de Maschis. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 281, pl. XXV)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 281, pl. XXV:

Fine border.

Fine initial.

History

Origin: 1466 ; Italian, Siena

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603–1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Bodleian Library Quarto Catalogues IX: Digby Manuscripts, repr. with addenda by R. W. Hunt and A. G. Watson, 1999). Decoration follows Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 143
Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 65
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 74

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 427

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.