Shelfmark
MS 276
Title
Catalogues of the library of Cardinal Basilios Bessarion (1403-1472) in Rome, and of the library of the Escorial in Spain. manuscript.
Varying form of title
Other title: Epistola Bessarionis Cardinalis et Patriarchae Constantinopolitani de bibliotheca[m] sua[m].
Varying form of title
Other title: Index librorum manuscriptorum eæ bibliotheca regia divi Laurentij omnes in membrana[m].
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford, England, 1710s.
Physical description
1 volume (225 pages) : paper ; 26 x 20 cm.
Note
Caption title on p. 1 of first item: Epistola Bessarionis Cardinalis et Patriarchae Constantinopolitani de bibliotheca[m] sua[m].
Note
Caption title on p. 1 of second item: Index librorum manuscriptorum eæ bibliotheca regia divi Laurentij omnes in membrana[m].
Note
Above the caption title of the Epistola Bessarionis is a contemporary note: Ex MS in Biblioth. Bodl. Arch. A. 172. Copying ascribed by Paul Quarrie to Joseph Bowles for Richard Topham (see Quarrie, 'Richard Topham of Windsor and his library', Evtopia, 2:1 (1993), p. 13). No internal evidence to show that Bowles was copyist. Unable to identify the manuscript in question in the Bodleian's catalogues.
Note
The catalogue of the Escorial library is probably copied from Bodleian MS Selden B.4., fol. lv recto to lxxv recto.
Note
Place and date of production inferred from the ascribed copying by Joseph Bowles for Richard Topham.
Note
The main text is paginated: 1-161 and 1-53.
Note
Margin ruled with a fold throughout.
Note
Topham stamp on first page of text: bequeathed to Eton College by Richard Topham in 1736. Listed by him in Finding Aid 4, fol. 80r.
Note
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
Note
Previous Eton shelfmarks: Bl.4.11, Bh.5.5.
Binding
18th century mid-brown reverse calf; blind tooled double fillet border; brown morocco spine label with gold tooled title and triple fillet; five raised bands; deckled edges.
Subject
Bessarion, 1403 - 1472 Cardinal,
Subject
Escorial. Real Biblioteca.
Added entry--name
Topham, Richard, 1671 - 1730 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Bessarion, 1403 - 1472 Cardinal,
Added entry--place
England Oxford
Language code
lat spa
Identifier
B46721