MS. Lat. class. c. 14

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession): no description available

Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia (start and end lost)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper, various watermarks

i (post-medieval paper) + 121 + i (post-medieval paper)

Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 225 mm.

Dimensions (ruled): 207–8 × 125 mm.

Foliation: Modern pencil, i, 1–122; an older but also 20th cent. pencil foliation, probably Italian, in the lower left corner of fols. 1–121, corresponds with the Bodleian foliation.

Layout

31–40 written lines per page, above top line

Hand(s)

Several hands; heavily annotated in places

Decoration

Some initials containing a crudely drawn figure or face (e.g. fols. 44v, 59r)

Binding

20th-cent. Italian plain parchment over thin pasteboards, with yapped edges and two pairs of leather ties at the fore-edge; the spine inscribed 'Valerius | Maximus' and 'MSS'; the endleaves are apparently preserved from an earlier binding in which they were all at the back of the volume

History

Origin: 15th century (?) ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought by the Bodleian from Sibrium, Libri e manoscritti, Milan, in 1980.

Record Sources

Draft description by Peter Kidd, late 1990s.

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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