MS. Digby 224

Summary Catalogue no.: 1825

Livy , Ab urbe condita (first decade) (Italian translation)

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine historiated border, historiated and other initials. By the Master of the Vitae Imperatorum . Humanistic script. (P&A ii. 694, pl. LXVII)

History

Origin: c. 1432 ; Italian, Milan

Provenance and Acquisition

Kenelm Digby, 1603-1665

Donated to the Bodleian, 1634.

Record Sources

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

Quarto Catalogue, cols. 237-8

Quarto Catalogue (addenda), p. 97

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 76

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (14 images from 35mm slides)

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