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MS. Laud Misc. 485

Summary Catalogue no.: 1266

Contents

Apocalypse with commentary of Nicholas de Lyra . (Italian translation)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: i+ 362 +vi fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 140 mm.

Layout

1 col., c. 21-3 lines, 125-135 × 95-110 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by ' Maria ', colophon on fol. 366, in Venetian dialect.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 552:

One good border and historiated initial, fol. 1.

Many historiated initials.

Many marginal drawings.

History

Origin: 1476 ; Italian, Venice (?)

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, cols. 349–50
Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 54

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (8 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 606

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add extent, leaf dimensions and layout from Watson, Dated and Datable.