MS 152
Works
Satires [manuscript]
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Iuvenalis Satirae
Title in Ker, MLGB II: Juvenalis
Italy, 1400-1500.
1 v. : 205 x 132 mm.
Written in Latin.
Secundo folio: Ius nullum.
Material: membrane; Gregory's rule (FHHF). Medieval repairs to holes and tears at ff.32, 45.
Format: codex.
Written space: 143 x 85 mm.
Number of leaves: i + 66 + i.
Collation: 1-6¹⁰ 7⁶.
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.
Page preparation: ruled in ink; no pricking visible.
Mise-en-page: single columns (30 lines) written in a set script above the top line.
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.
Handwriting: littera antiqua; one scribal hand.
Abbreviation and punctuation: few abbreviations; & and æ ligatures. Puncti, double puncti and puncti elevati.
Correction: spelling mistakes corrected inter linea.
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.
Contents: ff.1r-65r: the sixteen satires by Juvenal, not divided into books.
N.R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), pp. 762-763
M.R. James, A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), p. 83
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 85
N. Giannetto, Bernardo Bembo: umanista e politico veneziano (Florence, 1985), p. 309
Eton College Library, MS 152
Reproduction available; Bodleian Library; Eton College Library should be contacted for permission to reproduce; SFW 2534
Origin: Italy.
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.
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.
Latin poetry Manuscripts.
Bembo, Bernardo, 1433 - 1519 former owner.
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir former owner.
Italy.
lat
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