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Shelfmark

MS 152

Author

Collective uniform title

Works

Title

Satires [manuscript]

Varying form of title

Title in M. R. James catalogue: Iuvenalis Satirae

Varying form of title

Title in Ker, MLGB II: Juvenalis

Publication, distribution, etc.

Italy, 1400-1500.

Physical description

1 v. : 205 x 132 mm.

Language

Written in Latin.

Note

Secundo folio: Ius nullum.

Note

Material: membrane; Gregory's rule (FHHF). Medieval repairs to holes and tears at ff.32, 45.

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Format: codex.

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Written space: 143 x 85 mm.

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Number of leaves: i + 66 + i.

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Collation: 1-6¹⁰ 7⁶.

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Quire and leaf signatures and catchwords: there is no evidence of leaf or quire signatures at present, but the manuscript has been significantly trimmed by a binder. Catchwords.

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Page preparation: ruled in ink; no pricking visible.

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Mise-en-page: single columns (30 lines) written in a set script above the top line.

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Decoration: the first folio has a burnished gold initial (18 lines) entwined in white vine scroll (bianchi girari) on blue, green and pink background. Simple initials in blue or red with no penwork decoration.

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Handwriting: littera antiqua; one scribal hand.

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Abbreviation and punctuation: few abbreviations; & and æ ligatures. Puncti, double puncti and puncti elevati.

Note

Correction: spelling mistakes corrected inter linea.

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Marginalia, later additions: Bernardo Bembo's signposts, curly brackets, and maniculae throughout. He seems to be the hand responsible for adding running headers ff. 1-37r, showing "Saty." on versos and the chapter number in Roman numerals on rectos (IX is erroneously marked XIX). He adds more extensive notes at f.65v, where he summarises the satires in Latin. At f.66r a different humanistic hand added a few lines of verse in Italian and other short notes in Latin.

Formatted contents note

Contents: ff.1r-65r: the sixteen satires by Juvenal, not divided into books.

Citation/references note

N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 762-763

Citation/references note

M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), p. 83

Citation/references note

Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 85

Citation/references note

N. Giannetto, Bernardo Bembo: umanista e politico veneziano (Florence, 1985), p. 309

Cite as

Eton College Library, MS 152

Additional physical form available

Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 2534

Provenance

Origin: Italy.

Provenance

Provenance: owned by Bernardo Bembo in the 15th century. It was very likely brought to Eton by Sir Henry Wotton, who acquired part of Bembo's library when it was sold in Venice during one of his stays. Former ECL shelfmark: Bl.6.7.

Binding

18th-century calfskin over pasteboards by John Slatter, c.1715. Covers decorated with blind double fillets to form a border; blind roll to form a panel in the centre of the board with blind tools at its outer corners; gilt roll on board edges. Spine rebacked with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools, and titling over red morocco label ("Iuvenal"). Endleaves of laid paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.

Subject

Subject

Latin poetry Manuscripts.

Added entry--name

Added entry--name

Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir former owner.

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Added entry--place

Italy.

Language code

lat

Identifier

B50118
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