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Summary Catalogue no.: 2349

Contents

Q. Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni
Rubric: Quinti Curti Rufi Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis liber primus incipit

Followed by the ten books, here arranged as seven (fols 3, 19, 47v, 83, 103, 125, 142)

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: 157 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 10.5 × 7.25 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 227, Pl. XX

Good border

Good initials

History

Origin: c. 1440–1450 ; Italian, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Oxford, Oxfordshire, Lincoln College: (fol. 155v) a monogram; and 'Γνωθι σαυτον' (s. xvi). Visible in the 1474 catalogue (ed. Weiss, B.Q.R. 8, p. 349); 'ex dono eiusdem (sc. Roberti Flemmyng)'. Flemming was the founder of the college (MLGB3)

Henry VIII: in the inventory of the Upper Library at Westminster, 1542, no. 719 (cf. 'no. 721', fol. 3r): James P. Carley, The Libraries of King Henry VIII, CBLMC 7 (2000), H2.461

Old Royal Library no. 721

Given to the Bodleian in 1601 by Sir John Fortescue (MLGB3)

Record Sources

Description adapted (August 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922), with additional reference to published literature as cited. Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2, part 1, p. 312

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (1 image from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-08-07: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1922)