Rhetorica

Scope and Content

With (fo. 366) extracts from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' inside front cover: '282' (on label). fo. ii: 'Guil. Hen. Nigri [William H. Black] codex emptus 1851 Southgate's sale 27/8/51', and label: '141/5'.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by William H. Black at the Southgate sale, 27 Aug. 1851. Purchased at Sotheby's Sir John Pope-Hennessy sale, 18 June 1893 lot 565/4.

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