Livy — c. 1476; Italian, Tuscany
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 297
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Livy — c. 1476; Italian, Tuscany
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 297
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian, Tuscany
Date
c. 1476
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
i + 227+i fols. i+ 185 fols.
Decoration
Fine initials. Written in humanistic script by Giovanfrancesco Marzi of San Gimignano , fol. 185. Fol. 1 a later replacement. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 308)
Binding
15th century, Italian (as MS.): wood boards; reddish-brown leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines and stamps including near-strapwork designs (but no laurel), and spine cross-hatched with double lines; gilt gauffered edges; slots cut in front board under leather for four broad straps or clasps (absent, perhaps never completed, no matching evidence in lower board). 380–386 259 c. 60 (book closed). A pair with MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 296, which shows the same anomaly over clasps, tools not quite identical.
MSS. Canon. Gr.
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Provenance
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Giuseppe Canonici , -1807
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Title
Livy, Fourth decade (omitting bk. xxxiii) (Companion MS to MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 296.)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 297
Date
c. 1476
Language
Latin
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Latin Classical
Livy, Fourth decade (omitting bk. xxxiii) (Companion MS to MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 296.)
