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MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 6

Summary Catalogue no.: 18587

Contents

Language(s): Latin

Rubric: Decem præcepta
Incipit: Unum cole Deum, nec jures vana per ipsum, Sabbata sanctifices, habeas in honore parentes, Non sis occisor, fur, mochus, testis iniquus, Non aliam nuptam nec res cupies alienas.
Ovid, Metamorphoses (I-IX)
Rubric: 1488. Publii Ovidii Nasonis in methamorfesim liber primus.

Ends at IX.578, "Dum licet, o vetitæ scelerate libidinis auctor."

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
iii + 1 (foliated as 1) + 99 (foliated as 2–100) + 1 + iii paper leaves.
Dimensions (binding): 281 × 200 × 24 mm.
Dimensions (leaf): 282 × 191 mm.
Foliation: Contemporary numbering on the first four recto folios of each quire.

Collation

Generally in quires of 8 leaves.

Layout

One column of 35 lines, ruled in ink. 208 × 110 mm.

Hand(s)

One hand, humanistic.

Decoration

Penwork initials on fols. 2, 13, 25, 67, 80, 92v.

Later leadpoint sketched faces in profile, often with prominent noses, found on fols. 40, 45, 47, and 85.

Manucula of varying types, in leadpoint and ink, on fols. 9, 19, 59, 63, 67, 77v, 79r, 88v, 89r, 89v, 92v.

Line fillers on fols. 69, 71, and 88.

History

Origin: 15th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805

Giuseppe Canonici , -1807

Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817

Record Sources

Description adapted from the Quarto Catalogue (H. O. Coxe, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars tertia codices Græcos et Latinos Canonicianos complectens, Quarto Catalogues III, 1854).
Quarto Catalogue, vol. 3, col. 112
Summary Catalogue, vol. 4, p. 317

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Aliya Asaria and Ziyue Zhang as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 15th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 16th May 2025.

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2025-05-16: Additional data collected by Aliya Asaria and Ziyue Zhang as part of the 'Big Data' and Medieval Manuscripts workshop held at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford on 15th May 2025. Data encoded in TEI-XML by Sebastian Dows-Miller on 16th May 2025.