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MS. Lyell 83

Contents

Cicero, Orationes
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Decoration

Two hands. Large blue initials and no headings in part a, smaller blue or red initials and red headiings in part b. Border on fol. 1r. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 367, pl. XXXV)

History

Origin: 15th century, second half ; Italian, Florence or Naples

Provenance and Acquisition

James P. R. Lyell, 1871–1948

Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from A. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (1971)
Catalogue, p. 251
Catalogue, p. 252
Catalogue, p. 253

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2018-06-15: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.