Xenophon — 1453; Italian, Rome (?)
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 131
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Xenophon — 1453; Italian, Rome (?)
Aurelius Victor — 1450s; Italian, Rome (?)
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 131
Associated place
Romae
Romanae
Place of origin
Italian, Rome (?)
Date
1453
1450s
Language
Latin
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Contents
Physical extent
155 (sic) leaves
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817
Provenance
The combined volume bears (fol. 1) the autograph ex libris of Cardinal Bessarion: τοῦ Ξενοφῶντος ἀπομνημονεύματος τοῦ Σωκράτους, καὶ Αὐρηλίου Βίκτωρος ἱστορίαι κατ᾽ ἐπιτομὴν, κτῆμα Βησσαρίωνος καρδινάλις τοῦ τῶν Τουσκιλλήνων.
No. 239 in the list of Bessarion's books given to San Marco, Venice, in 1468 (see H. Omont, Revue des bibliothèques, iv (1894), 178).
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Giuseppe Canonici , -1807
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Title
Xenophon, etc.
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 131
Summary
Part 1, 1453: Xenophon, Memorabilia (tr. Bessarion)
Part 2, 1450s-1460s:
Origo gentis Romanae
De uiris illustribus urbis Romae
Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus
Date
1450's-1460's
Language
Latin
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Latin Classical
Xenophon, etc.
