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MS 274

Main entry--corporate name

Title

Index bibliothecæ Vaticanæ quam [?]rea magna librorum accessio=one [sic] auctam aiunt. manuscript.

Varying form of title

Other title: Index bibliothecae Vaticanae quam postea magna librorum accessione auctam aiunt.

Publication, distribution, etc.

Oxford, England, 1710s.

Physical description

1 volume (83 leaves) : paper ; 33 x 21 cm.

Note

Caption title, with parallel title in Greek. A portion of the fifth word is not clear, but reads 'postea' in other manuscript catalogues of the Vatican's Greek holdings.

Note

According to Paul Quarrie, a copy of Bodleian MS Selden B 6 ff. 72-135 (see Quarrie, 'Richard Topham of Windsor and his library', Evtopia, 2:1 (1993), p. 13) by Joseph Bowles. No internal evidence to show that Bowles was copyist, but the colophon preceding the index gives the same text as that mentioned in the Summary Catalogue of the Bodleian's western manuscripts.

Note

Place and date of production inferred from the ascribed copying from a manuscript in the Bodleian for Richard Topham.

Note

The main text is paginated, 1-144.

Note

The colophon appears at the tail of p. 144, in Richard Topham's hand. No stamp of Topham's evident. Listed by Topham in Finding Aid 4, fol. 80r.

Note

Includes an alphabetical index following the main text.

Note

Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.

Note

Previous Eton shelfmarks: Bl.3.7, Bh.4.11.

Binding

18th century mid-brown reverse calf; blind tooled triple fillet border with swag roll along spine edge; red morocco spine label with gold tooled title and triple fillet; six raised bands; deckled edges.

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England Oxford

Language code

lat grc

Identifier

B46707
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