Professional scribe's copy of The ende of Nero and beginning of Galba and Life of Agricola translated from Tacitus by Sir Henry Savile, c. 1591
MS. Eng. hist. d. 240
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Professional scribe's copy of The ende of Nero and beginning of Galba and Life of Agricola translated from Tacitus by Sir Henry Savile, c. 1591
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. hist. d. 240
Summary
Professional scribe's copy of The ende of Nero and beginning of Galba and Life of Agricola translated from Tacitus by Sir Henry Savile, c. 1591.
Date
c. 1591
Language
English
Physical facet
Within the text a leaf before fol. 59 and nine leaves after fol. 71 are missing (printed text p. 108, line 35-p. 118, line 33). Marks made by the printer in casting off the copy appear throughout. Loose inside the original cover when the manuscript was acquired, but now bound up. Some leaves have been cut across in the printing house. The cover of white vellum gilt is kept separately (MS. Eng. hist. d. 240*), and contains four small strips from a copy of Peter Lombard, Gloss on the Pauline epistles, I2th- 13th century.
Physical extent
243 Leaves
Custodial history
Sotheby's, 6 Feb. 1861 (Savile sale), lot 58.
Acquisition
Bought from W. H. Robinson Ltd., 1955.
Subject
History
16th century
