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MS. Barlow 23

Summary Catalogue no.: 6465

Contents

Statius, Silvae

Ending at 5.521 'clamore fatiscat'; the last 14 lines in a 16th-century hand. Collated as F in the Teubner edition.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 80 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 9.4 × 6.2 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 247). For other manuscripts by the scribe ('Scribe 'P'') see A. C. de la Mare, 'New research on humanistic scribes in Florence', in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1450-1520. Un primo censimento (1985), 393-600, at 525-6.

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 247:

Good border.

Good initial.

Binding

Blind-tooled brown leather.

History

Origin: 15th century, middle ; Italian, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Robert Flemyng (?): his marginalia, fols. 5v, 6r (D. Rundle, The Renaissance Reform of the Book (Cambridge, 2021), p. 180 n. 21).

Thomas Barlow, 1607–1691

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1691

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2022) from the following sources, with additional reference to published literature as cited:
Otto Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford, II (1970), no. 247
Summary Catalogue (1937)
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Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2 Part 2, p. 1057

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Last Substantive Revision

2022-07: Description revised for publication on Digital Bodleian.