Silius Italicus — 1455; Italian, Cortona(?)
MS. Add. C. 192
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Silius Italicus — 1455; Italian, Cortona(?)
Shelfmark
MS. Add. C. 192
Associated place
Florence
Place of origin
Italian, Cortona(?)
Date
1455
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
217 fols.
Decoration
Spaces left for initials and rubrics.
Binding
Blind-stamped leather over boards, 15th century.
Acquisition
Bought at Rome from the signore Guiseppa Venuti for £5 in April 1883.
Provenance
According to a note written in 1753 on fol. 203, this MS. was then 'in Bibliotheca equ. Marcelli et Fratrum de Venutis' at Cortona.
According to another note on fol. 203, written by Benvenuto Giuseppe de Venutti, son of Marcello, the MS. came to his father from Giovanni Girolamo Severini (?), and to him from the priest Pier Antonio Santucci, who found it at Florence.
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