Solinus — 1457; Italian, Padua or Venice (?)
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 161
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Solinus — 1457; Italian, Padua or Venice (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 161
Place of origin
Italian, Padua or Venice (?)
Date
1457
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i (unfoliated, conjoint with pastedown) + i + 109 + i + i (unfoliated, conjoint with pastedown), foliated i, 1–110.
Hands
Written in humanistic script by the same scribe as MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 133 and Cologny, Foundation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 51 (A. C. de la Mare and L. Nuvoloni, Bartolomeo Sanvito (2009), p. 384).
Decoration
Interlace initial, fol. 1r.
T-O world map, fol. 6v (later fifteenth-century addition?).
Fine miniature, fol. 7r, previously attributed to Leonardo Bellini or circle (Pächt and Alexander ii. 603, pl. LVIII), now to an anonymous Venetian or Paduan artist. Square frame, supported by two winged putti, containing initial S and two coins with profile heads of a woman and a young man (‘Diva Faustina’ and ‘Antonius hopilius’ [sic for Antoninus Pius], see J. J. G. Alexander, The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450–1600 (2016), p. 364 n. 171).
Three-line alternating red and blue initials at the beginning of chapters.
Chapter titles and marginal rubrics in carmine.
Binding
Modern binding.
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.
Provenance
Arms of Bernardo Bembo erased from fol. 7 and his ex libris from fol. 109v; annotations by him.
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805.
His brother Giuseppe Canonici, -1807.
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Title
Solinus
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 161
Summary
Fols. 1r-2r. Prologue
Fols. 2r-6v. Capitula, followed (fol. 6v) by T-O world map
Fols. 7-106v. Rubric: I SOLINI CHOSMOG|RAPHI POLYSTORIA
Fols. 106v-107r. Rubric: DE HIBERNIA CAPITVLVM LXIIII
Fols. 107r-109v. Rubric: DEMENSVRATIO PROVINCIARUM
Date
1457
Language
Latin
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Latin Classical
Solinus
