Terentius, Comoediae; Ferrara?, Italy, s. xv2
Exeter College MS. 188
Exeter College, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Terentius, Comoediae; Ferrara?, Italy, s. xv2
Shelfmark
Exeter College MS. 188
Place of origin
Ferrara?, Italy
Date
s. xv2
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment FHHF
Physical extent
101 leaves, prepared in the Italian manner, preceded and followed by a post-medieval paper flyleaf
Hands
A humanistic bookhand of Ferrarese type, punctuated by punctus versus and low point.
Decoration
On fol. 3r an illuminated border, white vine-tendrils on a blue background with crimson and dark green infilling and the green spattered with gold dots. At the foot is a defaced coat of arms on a gold background surrounded by a green laurel wreath with a blue and a red riband to left and right respectively.
Otherwise capitals are plain blue and red, 2-line. There are rubrics and red underlining of characters’ names. Not recorded by Alexander and Temple.
Binding
Sewn on five bands between wooden boards covered with stamped calf (Italian, s. xv), rebacked. Brown endbands; gilt edges. De Marinis, Legatura (as MS 186), 3. 103, no. 3035.
Provenance
A defaced shield at the foot of fol. 3r presumably bore the arms of the first owner. There is no record of how the manuscript came to Exeter.
Exeter library identifications are, inside the front cover, ‘Coxe CLXXXVIII’ (name in pencil, number in ink), ‘Exeter College’ (pencil) and ‘169 I’ (pencil, deleted). On fol. ir is ‘Exeter College, Oxford’ (embossed), ‘Italian MS of the 15 C’ (pencil).
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