Shelfmark
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.
Subject
Added entry--name
Topham, Richard, 1671 - 1730 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Oxford
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B46707