MS. Auct. F. 2. 11

Summary Catalogue no.: 8875

Lucan, Pharsalia (with gloss)

(fol. 1)

Rubric: M. Annei Lucani Vita ex commentario antiquissimo

(fol. 2)

Rubric: Omnibonus Vincentinus in Lucanum

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 205 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 287 × 207 mm.

Dimensions (written): 180 × 70–90 mm.

Layout

1 col., 20 lines

Decoration

Good decorative initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 228, in Dutch section)

Coloured initials.

Binding

Blind-stamped leather over boards, late 15th century (original?).

Accompanying Material

The binding contains parts of two Latin deeds executed at Louvain in the early part of the 15th century, and at Brussels in 1409.

History

Origin: 1479 ; Flemish, Louvain

Provenance and Acquisition

'Explicit lucanus Scriptus louanij Anno domini Millesmio .ccccº.lxxix.' (fol. 204).

Abraham Ortelius, 1527–98 (fol. ii)

Nicolas Heinsius, 1620–81: his sale, March 1683, catalogue, II, p. 68, no. 84.

Purchased by Edward Bernard (1638–97).

Purchased from Bernard's widow for the Bodleian in 1698.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2018) from Watson, Pächt and Alexander (see Bibliography), and the Summary Catalogue.

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 22

Bibliography

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 53

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, I (1966), no. 228

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-08-01: Fully revised to incorporate all information in Watson, Pächt and Alexander, and SC.

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