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

MS. Auct. F. 5. 7

Summary Catalogue no.: 28150

Contents

Vitruvius, De architectura
Language(s): Latin

A few marginal notes; on fol. 82v a fifteenth-century note about the price of fish, in Italian.

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Good border, historiated and other initials. By the same atelier as MS. Canon. Misc. 58. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 132)

Binding

Purple velvet, c. 1800, now in a green baize case.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; Italian, Bologna

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased, 1820.

Record Sources

Summary description based on the Summary Catalogue [contents, binding, acquisition] and Pächt and Alexander [date, origin, decoration].

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (full digital facsimile)
Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.