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MS. Laud Lat. 72

Summary Catalogue no.: 995

Contents

1.
Terence, Comedies
Language(s): Latin
3.
Guarinus Veronensis, Speeches
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 130 fols.
Dimensions (leaf): 272 × 200 mm.

Layout

1 col., 30-2 lines, 180–90 × c. 110 mm.

Hand(s)

Written by Jacobus de Stagnatis, fol. 118. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 442)

Decoration

Good historiated initials (damaged).

Good other initials (damaged). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 442)

History

Origin: 1424 ; Italian, Veneto

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. 33–4
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 42

Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 587

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

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