Shelfmark
MS 277
Title
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.
Publication, distribution, etc.
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, 1700s?
Physical description
1 volume (50 leaves) : paper ; 33 x 23 cm.
Note
Caption title on recto of first numbered folio.
Note
Place and date of production inferred from the subject matter: manuscripts that survived the fire at the Escorial in 1671.
Note
The leaves bearing text have been numbered in pencil: 1-44.
Note
Leaves 39-44 bear an alphabetical list of works in Latin in the hand of Richard Topham.
Note
Margins ruled with creases throughout.
Note
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.3.8, Bh.4.10.
Binding
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.
Subject
Escorial. Real Biblioteca.
Subject
Escorial. Real Biblioteca.
Added entry--name
Topham, Richard, 1671 - 1730 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Spain Madrid
Language code
lat spa
Identifier
B46724