Tractatus quatuor
MS. Selden Supra 86
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Tractatus quatuor
Shelfmark
MS. Selden Supra 86
Summary
Tractatus quatuor 'ex prælectionibus excellentissimi Domini Hieronomi Mercurialis Foroliuiensis, Antecessoris Patauini De lue Venerea, de morbis oculorum (fol. 28), de vitiis instrumentorum auditus (fol. 112), de decoratione (fol. 128). The last is on personal appearance and is dated 1583: the first, third, and fourth bear a motto "Έκ πόνον kλέος". The hand changes at fols. 28, 52, 55, 112.
Fol. 146 is part of a parchment deed of 1543 relating to a money transaction between Anthonius Bars with Cathringyn his wife and the municipality of Cologne, in German.
Date
Written in the last quarter of the 16th century in Italy in five hands
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment
Physical extent
147 Leaves
Custodial history
This MS. is catalogued by dr. Gerard Langbaine (MS. Langbaine 6, p. 95) as one of the volumes bequeathed by dr. Thomas Clayton in 1647 to the Bodleian. It probably drifted into the Selden collection by accident.
Manuscript 2916 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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