Humanist translations and texts, probably collected by Francesco Barbaro ; thirteen booklets bound together; Italian, Florence; 15th century (in part 1414)
MS. Bywater 38
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Humanist translations and texts, probably collected by Francesco Barbaro ; thirteen booklets bound together; Italian, Florence; 15th century (in part 1414)
Shelfmark
MS. Bywater 38
Place of origin
Italian, Florence (?)
Date
15th century
1414
Language
Latin
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Contents
Form
codex
Support
Paper; watermarks: post horn (cf. Briquet no. 7684); fore-part of stag (cf. Briquet no. 3279); three mountains in circle (cf. Briquet no. 11882); basilisk (cf. Briquet 11697); bell (cf. Briquet 3984); three mountains (cf. Briquet 11697); steer's head (cf. Briquet no. 14651).
Binding
Bound in 18th-century Italian plain parchment over pasteboards; the spine with four slightly raised cords, the second compartment with a paper label inscribed 'Misc. | Latina | MS. | Saec. 15' over an older inscription; fine endpapers printed in red and gilt; traces of leather and of ferrous corrosion on fols. i and 260 suggest a previous binding was of brown leather, and had metal fitting at the corners and centre of each cover.
Acquisition
Bequeathed by him in 1915.
Provenance
Francesco Barbaro, procurator of S. Marco, 15th century: a list of contents in his hand (fol. 1v) is headed: 'In hoc volumine patricii veneti francisci barbari procuratoris sancti m[arci] infrascripta continentur.', which must have been written between January 1452 and his death in 1454 (for a facsimile of a similar inscription, see B. Pighi, Catulli Codex Bononiensis 2621 (Bologna, 1950), pl. 1c).
Giambatista Recanati (1687–1735) : additions to the titles on fols. 134r and 228r in his hand; probably identical with the MS. in his library mentioned by G. Agostini, Scrittori Viniziani(Venice: 1754) I, 223, as containing the item starting on fol. 74r.
Jacopo Soranzo (1686–1761) ; with his characteristic 'bold foliation'; numeration and page references added to the list of contents (fol. 1v) by Francesco Melchiori, Soranzo's librarian (cf. Mitchell, 1969, pls. XI, XIV).
Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727–1806) .
Giuseppe Canonici (d. 1807) : Matteo died intestate, and his MSS. passed to his brother.
Giovanni Perisinotti : on Giuseppe's death in 1807, the MSS., about 3550 in number, passed to Perisinotti, and after many attempts to sell them, 2045 of them were acquired by the Bodleian in 1817; another group was sold at Sotheby's in 1821; and the remainder, 915 in number, were sold to Sneyd in 1834.
Rev. Walter Sneyd, of Denton House, Cuddeston (1809–1888) : his sale, Sotheby's 16 Dec. 1903 and three following days, lot 77, bought by J. Barnard for 1 shilling.
Ingram Bywater
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Isocrates
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Bywater, Ingram, 1840-1914
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Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888
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Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
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Loschi, Antonio, -1441
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Quirini, Giovanni, of Venice, fl. c. 1405
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Este, Leonello d', 1407-1450
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Perisinotti, Giovanni, fl. c. 1807-17
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Emiliani, P.
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Giustiniani, Leonardo, approximately 1388-1446
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Lucian, of Samosata
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Barbaro, Francesco, 1390-1454
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Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805
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Manenti, Scipione (d. 1444), bishop of Modena
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Recanati, Giovanni Battista, -1735
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Plutarch
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Tobias, Veronensis, ca. 1415/1420-1449
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Jacobus, Angelus de Scarperia, ca. 1360 - 1410/11
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Canonici, Giuseppe (d. 1807)
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Rizzoni, Martino, Veronese humanist (1404-88)
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Donato, Pietro, 1380-1447
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Plutarch, pseudo
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Soranzo, Giacomo, 1686-1761
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Quirini, Lauro
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Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
