Terence — 15th century, beginning; Italian, Lombardy, Milan

Title

Terence — 15th century, beginning; Italian, Lombardy, Milan

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 98

Associated place

Milan

Italian

Place of origin

Italian, Lombardy, Milan

Date

15th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Decoration

Good initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 690)

Binding

15th century, early, Italian, Milan (as MS.): wood boards; dark brown leather, blind-tooled with lines and repeated stamps including ‘lamb and flag’ and the Visconti viper; one of four clasps remaining, with strap of red tawed leather and metal tip; scalloped brass corner-pieces, present but lacking their bosses; spine, centrepieces and further bosses lost; edges plain; condition generally battered. Front flyleaf is a fragment (? scribal waste) containing Ovid, Heroides 6. 1–63, 14th/15th century, Italian, and the ex libris of a Visconti family member.

18th century, Italian: replacement spine of grey paper with title and shelfmark, in turn replaced (preserved inside) by 20th-century Bodleian reback. 280–281 203–205 c. 40 (book closed).

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Provenance

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Title

Terence, Comedies (defective at beginning and end)

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 98

Date

15th century, beginning

Language

Latin

Physical extent

1 volume