MS 277
Indice abecedario de los manuscritos hebreos chaldeos griegos latinos ruthenicos armenicos castellanos en lengua lemosina italianos y franceses asi antiquos como modernos que se reservaron del fatal incendio que padecio el r[eal] monasterio de S[anto] Lorenzo. manuscript.
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, 1700s?
1 volume (50 leaves) : paper ; 33 x 23 cm.
Caption title on recto of first numbered folio.
Place and date of production inferred from the subject matter: manuscripts that survived the fire at the Escorial in 1671.
The leaves bearing text have been numbered in pencil: 1-44.
Leaves 39-44 bear an alphabetical list of works in Latin in the hand of Richard Topham.
Margins ruled with creases throughout.
Bequeathed to Eton College by Richard Topham in 1736. Listed by him in Finding Aid 4, fol. 80r.
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on front pastedown.
Previous Eton shelfmarks: Bl.3.8, Bh.4.10.
18th century mid-brown reverse calf; blind tooled double fillet border; inner frames of swag and flower rolls with diagonal lines joining corners; blind tooled swag roll on board edges; brown morocco spine label with gold tooled title and triple fillet; five raised bands; deckled edges.
Escorial. Real Biblioteca.
Escorial. Real Biblioteca.
Topham, Richard, 1671 - 1730 former owner.
Spain Madrid
lat spa
B46724