Shelfmark
MS 272
Author
Title
Bibliographical notes and copies of manuscripts once belonging to Richard Topham and relating to his library. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Windsor, England, between circa 1690 and circa 1730.
Physical description
3 folders : paper ; 38 x 24 cm.
Note
Devised title.
Note
An assortment of manuscripts, chiefly in Topham's hand, relating to his collections. The first folder contains 29 sheets of notes in Topham's hands extracted from printed volumes in his library. Most of these are accompanied by a note with the shelfmark of the volume in question, including Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch, Athenaeus.
Note
The second folder contains two contemporary manuscript copies of Greek manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. The first is an extract from George Choiroboskos which according to an accompanying note in the hand of Patrick Strong is in the hand of Joseph Bowles, Bodleian's Librarian between 1719 and 1729. The second is an extract from Nicetas Choniates, Thesaurus orthodoxae fidei, Bodleian MS Roe 22, possibly also in Joseph Bowles.
Note
The third folder contains a photocopy of a manuscript found in Topham's copy of Bernard's Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae (1697) (Bg.3.09) concerning Greek manuscripts at the Bodleian from the collection of Francesco Barozzi. A portion of the manuscript is a letter from Joseph Bowles presumably to Topham, describing the Barozzi manuscripts. A second portion gives further details in Topham's hand. The original is now at the Bodleian, at MS Gr.misc.c.7.
Binding
Three cream paper envelopes.
Copy-specific note
Previously Sa2.4.07
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject
Subject
Manuscripts England Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
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England Oxford
Language code
eng grc lat
Identifier
B46705