Honorius Augustodunensis — 15th century, beginning; Italian, Venice (?)
MS. Lat. th. c. 14
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Honorius Augustodunensis — 15th century, beginning; Italian, Venice (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Lat. th. c. 14
Place of origin
Italian, Venice (?)
Date
15th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
iii + 65 leaves
Decoration
Illuminated initial (fol.5), showing a kneeling crowned female figure, and in the top right corner the head of God the Father appearing in a cloud, with the words ‘Ecclesia sancta Christi sponsa.’
The illumination extends into the left-hand border.
There are twelve smaller illuminated initials on gold backgrounds on fols.1, 14, 21, 27, 35v, 37v, 43, 46v, 48, 55v, 64v.
The rest red and blue flourished. The lemmata are in large red letters.
Binding
modern vellum binding.
Provenance
At the top of fol.1 a 16th cent. hand has added ‘Expositio Irrefragabilis Doctoris Alexandri de Ales in Cantica Canticorum Salomonis’, and a similar ascription is added at fol.65.
cross and 'A 202', 16th century (?)
Monogram 'GBR' (?) (=Giovan Battista Recanti?, the Venetian bibliophile, d. 1734)
A spine label is covered by a Bodleian label
L. S. Olschki, Venice (bookplate); bought from Sotheran, 1950.
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