Johannes de Sacro Bosco — 15th century, middle; Italy North
MS. Add. A. 2
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Johannes de Sacro Bosco — 15th century, middle; Italy North
Shelfmark
MS. Add. A. 2
Place of origin
Italy North
Date
15th century, middle
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
paper
Physical extent
i + 56leaves
Hands
Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 820)
Decoration
Geometric diagrams (e.g. fols 8r and 49v). A representational diagram on fol. 10r Type diagram Subject Geometric diagram with walled city and boat on water
Binding
Red leather on boards with blind tooling, brass bosses and fore-edge clasp fittings (15th century)
Acquisition
Bought for 6s. at Sotheby's 20-1 June 1860, lot. 245, among lots 'formerly in the archives of two princely Roman families'.
Provenance
Fol. 56v: '1452 (?) Visto; per mi Zohanne de Ipesoadan (?)'. For similar inscriptions, see MS. Canon. Misc. 486, MS. D'Orville 36, and MS. Laud Lat. 48; also Edinburgh, Nat. Lib. Scotland, MS. Adv. 18. 3. 15. Apparently to be read as Giovanni dei Pescadori: see Giuseppe Billanovich, 'Il testo di Livio', Italia medioevale e umanistica 32 (1989), 53-99 at 85 and n. 93.
'V. g. 51', 'Pº xix. f. 3', 'V. E. 6'
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