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Title

Sinesius Cyrenensis — c. 1461; Italy, Padua

Shelfmark

MS. Bodl. 80

Place of origin

Italy, Padua

Date

c. 1461

Language

Latin

Sinesius Cyrenensis Laus Calvitii

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 44leaves

Hands

Italian Humanistic script

Decoration

Fine border

Fine initials (faceted capitals, cf. MS. Bodl. 646)

Besides some finely-illuminated capitals there is on fol. 4v a painted architrave supported by pillars resting on a marble plinth, with an inscription (Summary Catalogue)

Acquisition

"Bought from Rev. Lionel Day's library (1640)" (Summary Catalogue I. 112, sub anno 1654).

Provenance

This appears to be the copy given to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester (see preface on fol. 5v) but on fol. 5rare the arms of Beckington, presumably Thomas Beckington, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who died in January 1464/1465

Glastonbury, Somerset, Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Hunc librum de laude caluorum domino Petro Westonmonacho glastoniensi dono quod [?] dedit venerabilis pater Iohannes SelwodeAbbas Glastoniensis' [abbot 1457-1493] (on flyleaf, fol. 1r) ( MLGB3)

Julius Palmer, William Lile, Jeremias Warner, Edward Bowton? (16th century, fols. 1-2)

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