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MS. Laud Lat. 50

Summary Catalogue no.: 1338

Livy, First decade

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Decoration

Fine miniature.

Good border.

Good historiated initials. The main hand is related to Zebo da Firenze. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 655, pl. LXIII)

Binding

16th century, Venice, ornamented in blind.

History

Origin: 15th century, beginning ; Italian, Bologna (?)

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. 25–6

Quarto Catalogue, p. 539 (addenda)

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 57