Humanist collection (fol. 145); Germany, early 16th century; bound with two printed books (fols. 8, 114)

Title

Humanist collection (fol. 145); Germany, early 16th century; bound with two printed books (fols. 8, 114)

Shelfmark

MS. Bywater 15

Place of origin

German

Date

16th century, early

Language

Latin

German

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper, watermark steer's head with letter R, cf. Briquet 15318

Hands

written in several hands

Binding

contemporary German binding of blind stamped pigskin, with circular stamp showing paschal lamb, cf. Kyriss, Verzierte Gotische Einbände, Stuttgart, 1951, no.162, pl.326.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1915.

Provenance

On the front inside cover if 'EHC', and 'Anno Verbigene MDXVI', both in the same hand; and a monogram incorporating the latters 'ACEHINPRST'

Ingram Bywater

Title

Classical and Renaissance miscellany

Shelfmark

MS. Bywater 15

Summary

Classical and Renaissance miscellany, in Latin with a few words in German, of printed texts and of manuscript items copied in various hands mainly from printed texts, early 16th-cent., assembled and bound in Germany by 1516 (with later additions) perhaps for 'EHC', with special emphasis on florilegia-extracts on moral themes, including: (fols. 1v-6v) lists of Greek and Latin authors, etc; (fols. 8-113) printed text, Flores poetarum de virtutibus et vitiis libri decem, Cologne, 1505; (fols. 114-42) printed text, Matthias Ringmann (alias Ringmannus Philesius), Hemistichia poetarum sentenciosiora pro pueris, n.p., n.d. (preface dated Strassburg, 1505), with manuscript annotations identifying the sources; (fols. 145-62) Persius, Satirae; (fols. 163v-76, 181-3v). A. Mancinelli, De poetica virtute (first published independently at Rome c.1490); (fols. 176-9) Ps.-Vergil, Epigrammata, beg. 'Vir bonus ...'; (fols. 179v-80v) Hermann Busch, Ode ... de contemnendo mundo et amanda sola virtute et scientia (Sapphics, first published at Strassburg, 1503, with B. Spagnuoli's Bucolica); (fols. 184-204v) transcripts from Johannes Lantzberger, Dialogus recommendationis exprobationisque poetices, published at Speyer c.1494; (fols. 207v-10, 216v-33) material relating to the Cynics, with special reference to Rodolphus Agricola and to the Latin translation of Ps.-Crates Thebanus, Letters, by Athanasius Constantinopolitanus, published at Paris c.1474; (fols. 211v-15v) Pope Pius II (Aeneas Silvius), poem in Sapphics on the passion of Christ, beg. 'Quid tibi tandem scelerate queris'; (fols. 234-44) 'Ex Capnionis Cabala', extracts from Johann Reuchlin's De arte cabalistica, first published 1517.

Date

Early 16th cent.

Language

English

Physical facet

Binding: German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps

Physical extent

252 Leaves

Custodial history

Inscribed on the front pastedown: (in red) 'EHC' and 'Anno Verbigenae M D xvj'; (a monogram incorporating the letters) ACEHINPRST, the A and the T especially large; Bywater nos. 1315, 2473.