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MS. Rawl. C. 988

Summary Catalogue no.: 12818

Contents

Valerius Maximus, Memorabilia (Italian tr.)
Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment

Hand(s)

Humanistic script.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 326, pl. XXX:

Fine border.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials (mutilated and defaced).

History

Origin: 15th century, end ; Italian, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the Quarto Catalogue (W. D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ...viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum...complectens, Quarto Catalogues V, 5 fascicles, 1862–1900). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970).
Quarto Catalogue, col. 562
Summary Catalogue, vol. 3, p. 224

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (4 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2019-10-31: Toby Burrows/Mapping Manuscript MigrationsProvenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/mapping-manuscript-migrations/oxford-tei-updates/blob/master/update_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.