A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Digby 199

Summary Catalogue no.: 1800

Contents

Romuleon. (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Good initial. Written by Nicholaus Iovannis de Vannis de Sassena for Tommaso Soderini capitano and podestà in Pisa, fol. 221, inscription scribbled over. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 263)

History

Origin: 1452 ; Italian, Tuscany

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).

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 429

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.