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MS. Rawl. G. 97

Summary Catalogue no.: 14824

Contents

Virgil, Georgics

With the usual tetrastichs attributed to Ovid

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 62 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 7.25 × 4.875 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 299)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 299, Pl. XXVI

Fine border

Fine initial

Binding

Stamped leather on boards, Italian, contemporary. Originally two fore-edge clasps

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italy, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Arms of the Albizzi family of Florence, fol. 1.

'Vincentij Meliorati Rhemigij f[ilij?] καὶ τῶν φίλων' (16th century, fol. i) (cf. MS. Lat. class. d. 8).

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 359

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-07-08: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)