MS. Add. B. 54

Summary Catalogue no.: 24723

Language(s): Latin

1. (fol. 2)

Horace, Odes

In four books, fols. 24, 38, 63.

2. (fol. 77)

Horace, Carmen saeculare

3. (fol. 79)

Horace, Epodes

Followed by:

Life of Horace

Incipit: Horatius Q. Flaccus libertino praecone patre natus

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii + 98 fols.

Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 105 mm.

Dimensions (written): 105 × 60–5 mm.

Layout

1 col., 21 lines.

Hand(s)

Fol. 95: 'Librum hunc Laurentius Petrini filius et Ballanteae domus suis manibus scripsit. Anno Mo ccccliiij'.

Humanistic script.

Decoration

Fine borders, initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 264, pl. XXIV)

Coloured initials, gold headings.

Fol. 2r: initial M: gold initial with white-stem decoration on multicoloured ground.

Fol. 2r: border, upper, right and lower margins: white-stem decoration on multicoloured ground. In lower margin two winged putti support the coat of arms of Bellanti of Siena.

History

Origin: 1454 ; Italian, Siena (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Celso Cittadini, 1553–1627: 'Emi ego Celsus Cittadinus a Fabio Paulinio librorum ueterum uenditore die xx Januarij 1603 iulios duodec.', fol. 95.

Guglielmo Libri, no. 500 in his sale, 1859.

Purchased.

Record Sources

Adapted (2018) from A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts; Pächt and Alexander (see Bibliography); and the Summary Catalogue (1905). Additional description of decoration by Elizabeth Solopova, c. 2000.

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 53

Bibliography

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.435–1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984), no. 16

Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, II (1970), no. 264

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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