Collection of Moral Sayings; France or Italy, 15th - 16th century
MS. Bywater 17
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Collection of Moral Sayings; France or Italy, 15th - 16th century
Shelfmark
MS. Bywater 17
Place of origin
French or Italian
Date
15th century, late – 16th century, early
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
87 leaves
Hands
Humanistic script
Decoration
Small initials in blue, red and gold
Binding
modern binding
Acquisition
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1915.
Provenance
Ingram Bywater
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Title
Volume written on parchment in France
Shelfmark
MS. Bywater 17
Summary
Volume written on parchment in France in a humanistic cursive script, with small decorated initials, containing: (fols. 1-6) 'Altercatio Adriani et Epicteti', incomplete at the beginning, with (fols. 6-87) two florilegia in Latin from classical and patristic Greek and Latin writers, arranged by subject, (fols. 6-67) 'flores multorum auctorum' giving the sources of the quotations, and (fols. 67-87) 'sententie secundum elementa a variis poetis excerpta', without sources.
Date
early 16th cent.
Language
English
Physical facet
Binding: 18th-cent. half red calf, decorated paper boards, with label on spine '85-'
Physical extent
87 Leaves
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Collection contents
Manuscripts and Papers of Ingram Bywater
Manuscripts collected by Bywater
Volume written on parchment in France
