Shelfmark
MS 315
Author
Title
Collectanea sententiarum et rerum notabilium ex prestantibus autoribus et maxime ijs quorum integra opera non extant citantur autem fragmina ab ijs qui eos obseruauerunt collectore Guilielmo Hormano Caesarisburgense. manuscript.
Publication, distribution, etc.
England, between circa 1500 and 1535.
Physical description
1 volume (190 + [1] leaves) : parchment ; 17 x 12 cm.
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Caption title from folio 5r.
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Date and place of production inferred from the creator's biography.
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Commonplace book compiled by William Horman of quotations, many of which come from classical sources now only known through citations in other works. Includes compilations of information on legal systems, world chronology and history, and geography; and lists of definitions, titles of books, Roman gods, weights and measures. Horman was Head Master and then Vice Provost of Eton, and may have compiled some of the volume whilst resident at the college.
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With an index on folios 186r to 190r: Index in contenta huius libri in quo prior numerus servit nunc ro[?] folioru[m] secund[um] partibus corrinde[m].
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Contents list of leaf 1r and 1v:Repertorium contentorum.
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Contemporary foliation in ink. The fifth leaf (B2) was unfoliated, with the sequence jumping to the next leaf, presumably because this leaf was blank. A modern foliation has been added in pencil: iv, 188. This foliation counts the front pastedown as leaf i, since it is the first leaf of the first gathering of four.
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Leaves ruled with rust red ink throughout.
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Some rubrication. Written in italic hand.
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Several ownership inscriptions on leaf 4 and the unnumbered leaf immediately following. One dates from 1604 and has been obliterated.
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Ownership inscription: Richarde Lowther.
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Ownership inscription: Christopher Richmond (partially obliterated), me possedit April 17 anno 1609.
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Ownership inscription: Georgius Holme. hunc quo teneat fure libra scimas. Ex dono Rich. Lowther.
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Ownership inscription on leaf 1r: Tho: Thompson.
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Some annotations in various hands throughout, often copying out commonplaces.
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Purchased by Eton College at Sotheby's, 23 June 1987.
Binding
Contemporary English mid brown calf[?] over thin, shallow bevelled wood boards; blind tooled fillet frames, with central panel of four lines formed by tesselated cross-shaped tool; brass fittings for a clasp, now lost; blind tooled decoration on spine; nearly half of leather on spine now detached; three sewn bands; rear pastedown of early medieval manuscript leaf in two columns, with blue and red rubrication.
Genre/Form
Commonplace books
Added entry--place
England
Identifier
B48734