Shelfmark
MS 148
Author
Title
Conjuratio Wiati sub Maria regina. manuscript.
Varying form of title
Parallel title: Coniuratio Wiati sub Maria regina
Varying form of title
Synomōsia Ōetou
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford, 1554 ? April 2.
Physical description
1 volume ([6], 38 leaves) : paper ; 15 x 11 cm.
Note
A poem in Greek hexameters on Wyatt's Rebellion of 1554, dedicated to Mary I. With a Latin preface.
Note
Title taken from title written in ink on fol. [6]r.
Note
Greek title given as running header on each page of main text.
Note
Leaves are sometimes numbered in pencil, with a continous sequence. Fol. 38 has been misnumbered 37.
Note
Two blank leaves between preface and main text.
Note
Preface written in italic hand.
Note
Place and date of production are inferred from the preface, which is signed: Oxonij quarto Nonas Aprilis. Wyatt's Rebellion began in January 1554, and culminated in his execution on 11th April 1554.
Note
Previous shelfmarks: Bl.6.3, Bl.7.8, Bo.7.9.
Note
Engraved armorial bookplates of Eton College Library on front flyleaf and on verso of fol. [5]. This manuscript does not appear in Bernard's Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum of 1697, suggesting it entered the Library after that date.
Citation/references note
M.R. James, 148
Binding
Late 17th or early 18th century mid brown calf; blind tooled double fillet border; blind tooled inner frame of dot roll and swag roll, with large fleurons at each corner; gold tooled leaf roll on board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; four raised bands; gilt edges.
Subject
Greek language, Medieval and late Dictionaries.
Subject
Greek language Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Betham, Edward, 1709 - 1783 donor.
Added entry--place
England
Language code
grc lat
Identifier
B46555