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.
Note
Format: codex.
Note
Written space: 143 x 85 mm.
Note
Number of leaves: i + 66 + i.
Note
Collation: 1-6¹⁰ 7⁶.
Note
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.
Note
Page preparation: ruled in ink; no pricking visible.
Note
Mise-en-page: single columns (30 lines) written in a set script above the top line.
Note
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.
Note
Handwriting: littera antiqua; one scribal hand.
Note
Abbreviation and punctuation: few abbreviations; & and æ ligatures. Puncti, double puncti and puncti elevati.
Note
Correction: spelling mistakes corrected inter linea.
Note
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
Juvenal Manuscripts.
Subject
Latin poetry Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Bembo, Bernardo, 1433 - 1519 former owner.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Italy.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50118