Valerius Maximus — 15th century (?); Italian
MS. Lat. class. c. 14
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Valerius Maximus — 15th century (?); Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. class. c. 14
Place of origin
Italian
Date
15th century (?)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper, various watermarks
Physical extent
i (post-medieval paper) + 121 + i (post-medieval paper)
Hands
Several hands; heavily annotated in places
Decoration
Some initials containing a crudely drawn figure or face (e.g. fols. 44v, 59r)
Binding
20th-cent. Italian plain parchment over thin pasteboards, with yapped edges and two pairs of leather ties at the fore-edge; the spine inscribed 'Valerius | Maximus' and 'MSS'; the endleaves are apparently preserved from an earlier binding in which they were all at the back of the volume
Acquisition
Bought by the Bodleian from Sibrium, Libri e manoscritti, Milan, in 1980.
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