MS. Auct. F. 5. 7

Summary Catalogue no.: 28150

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. (P&A 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 by Elizabeth Solopova and Matthew Holford, based on the Summary Catalogue [contents, binding, acquisition] and Pächt Alexander [date, origin, decoration].

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 412

Digital Images

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

Bibliography

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 132

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