Suetonius, Einhard, Aulus Gellius — 12th century, middle; English

Title

Suetonius, Einhard, Aulus Gellius — 12th century, middle; English

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. class. d. 39

Place of origin

English

Date

12th century, middle

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

vii (19th-cent. paper) + I (original pastedown) + ii (17th/18th-cent. paper bifolium, pasted to fol. ix) + 161 + I (original pastedown) + vii (19th-cent. paper)

Hands

Fine high-grade gothic bookhand

Binding

19th-cent. black leather over wood boards, the centre of the upper cover stamped in gilt with the arms of Sion College surrounded by the legend 'SION COLLEGE | THOMAS WHITE D.D. FOUNDER'; with two metal clasps; the top compartment of the spine with a circular paper label, now illegible, the second lettered in gilt 'SUETONIUS | DE VITIS XII CÆSARUM | GENEALOGIA | REGUM FRANCORUM | EINHARDUS | DE VITA CAROLI MAGNI', the sixth with another circular paper label with the Sion College shelfmark, the last compartment lettered 'M.S.'; marbled endpapers; marks on fol. viii show that the ?original binding was on three wide bands; with a single strap fastening from the middle of the upper fore-edge to a pin the centre of the lower board; a presumably later binding used a pair of clasps at the fore-edge, fastening further to left of centre on the lower board.

Acquisition

Sotheby's 13 June 1977, lot 70, bought by Quaritch for the Bodleian.

Provenance

Dominican Convent, Northampton.

John Gunthorp (d. 1498), with his acquisition notes and annotations.

Bequeathed by Gunthorp to Thomas Cornysh (d. 1513), fellow of Oriel College, to which he gave it; 16th/17th-century signature of Thomas Tonkys.

Sion College, by 1697, with the early shelfmark 'A. 35' (fol. 1r), later re-referenced as Arc. L. 40. 2 / L. 21