Shelfmark
MS 262
Author
Lucian, of Samosata.
Title
Compilation of Latin translations of works by Lucian of Samosata with Buonaccorso de Montemagno's Dialogus de vera nobilitate. manuscript.
Varying form of title
Other title: Toxaris
Varying form of title
Other title: Symposium
Varying form of title
Other title: Lucianus Graecus de amicicia
Varying form of title
Other title: Symposium vel Laphite. Lycinus, Philo.
Varying form of title
Other title: Declamatoriae Controversiae titulus.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Northern Italy, after 1508.
Physical description
1 volume (80 leaves) : parchment ; 25 x 18 cm.
Note
Devised title.
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Contains a translation of Lucian's Toxaris translated by Giovanni Aurispa; A letter by Nicolaus Leonicus Thomaeus Epirota to his friend Battista Soardi which acts as an introduction to; Lucian's Symposium, translated by Thomaeus; Buonaccorso de Montemagno's Dialogus de vera nobilitate. Information supplied by Professor Keith Clemons Sitwell, 2016.
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Place of production inferred from the letter by Thomaeus, which is signed from Padua, and from Soardi's location in Bergamo during the period. Jean Grolier, later owner and possibly compiler of the volume, is known to have lived in Milan.
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Date of production inferred from the letter by Thomaeus, which is dated 1508.
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Leaves are unnumbered. The first leaf and final leaf are blank.
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Each item given a caption title in red. Letter by Thomaeus begins on fol. 36r; Symposium on fol. 37r; Dialogus de vera nobilitate on fol. 59v.
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Dialogus de vera nobilitate is given a title 'Declamatoriae controversiae titulus'. Two subheadings in red capitals: Publii Cornelii oratio; C. Flaminii oratio.
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Written in a roman hand.
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Ruled in drypoint; illuminated initials on dark red ground, with vine decoration on fol. 1r.
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Inscription in a different hand on final leaf of text: Grolierij et amicor[um]. Jean Grolier (1489-1565).
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Appeared in the 1804 sale of books from the library of Antoine-Augustin Renouard, as lot 1224 (see sale catalogue, p. 141).
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Appeared in the 1824 sale of books from the library of Auguste Chardin, as lot 2030 (see sale catalogue, p. 187).
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Stamp of Sir Thomas Phillipps on front flyleaf, with number 852.
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Booklabel of John Hely-Hutchinson of Chippenham Lodge, Ely on front flyleaf. According to the James interleaved catalogue, Eton MS 932, purchased by Hely-Hutchinson from W.J. Robinson Ltd in February 1947 for £250 and presented to Eton College Library in June 1954.
Note
A lengthy description of the manuscript, and particularly its binding, can be found in H.W. Nixon, 'Twelve books in fine bindings from the library of J.W. Hely-Hutchinson described and discussed by Howard W. Nixon' (Oxford: Roxburghe Club, 1953), pp. 14-16.
Binding
North Italian brown goat, dating from between 1508 to 1525; four concentric frames of blind tooled double fillet; gold tooled knotwork frame formed of individual tools; two interlacing squares formed in blind tooled double fillet within frames, enclosing a gold tooled centre ornament formed of the same tools as the knotwork border; blind tooled double fillet decoration on spine; gilt edges; green and yellow ties, possibly not original. Kept in modern reddish-brown cloth covered clamshell box with black morocco spine label.
Subject
Dialogues, Greek Early works to 1800.
Subject
Philosophy Early works to 1800.
Subject
Greek literature Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Grolier, Jean, 1479 - 1565 former owner.
Added entry--name
Renouard, Ant. Aug. (Antoine Augustin), 1765 - 1853 former owner.
Added entry--name
Chardin, Auguste former owner.
Added entry--name
Phillipps, Thomas, 1792 - 1872 Sir, former owner.
Added entry--name
Hely-Hutchinson, J. W., 1882 - 1955 former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy
Language code
lat
Identifier
B46690