MS. Laud Lat. 116

Summary Catalogue no.: 1028

With table of contents and preface.

Rubric: Ad magnanimum et illustrem heroa Sigismundum Pandulfum Malatestam, splendidissimum Ariminensium regem, domitorem gentium ac Imp. semper invictum, Roberti Valturii rei militaris voluminum prefatio [in gold]

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: 207 leaves; folio

Hand(s)

Humanistic script by the same scribe as MS. Canon. Ital. 288, fols. 1-91v. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 835, pl. LXXVI)

Decoration

Good miniatures (drawings).

Good diagrams, unfinished. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 835, pl. LXXVI)

History

Origin: 15th century (before 1462) ; Italian, Rimini

Provenance and Acquisition

William Laud, 1573-1645, 1635.

Part of his second donation to the Bodleian Library, 16 June 1636.

Record Sources

Description adapted (2024) from the following sources:

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 835

H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858–1885

Quarto Catalogue, col. 52

Quarto Catalogue, col. 53

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 44

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (3 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-12: Revised to incorporate all information from printed catalogues.

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