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Shelfmark

MS 158

Author

Uniform title

[De mulieribus claris]

Title

J. Boccaccius, De mulieribus claris. manuscript

Varying form of title

Title in M. R. James catalogue: Io. Boccacius De mulieribus claris

Publication, distribution, etc.

Italy, between ca. 1450 and ca. 1500.

Physical description

1 volume (ii, 96, ii leaves) : paper ; 21 x 14 cm.

Note

Manuscript on paper of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, first printed in Ulm, 1473 (GKW 4483).

Note

The text is on ff. 1-94; ff. 94v-96v left blank.

Note

Nearly contemporary foliation.

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Written space: 143 x 85 mm.

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31 long lines.

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Pencil ruling, the top horizontal prolonged into the margins but not the bottom one, with double vertical bounders.

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Collation: 1-9¹⁰ 10⁶.

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Well-written in an upright humanistic hand.

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Spaces for 4-line (f. 1) and 3-line initials left blank.

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Secundo folio: et animi.

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Rebound at Eton around 1720.

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Written in Italy.

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Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.6.13.

Note

This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.

Citation/references note

Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 765

Citation/references note

James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 158

Citation/references note

Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 33

Cite as

Eton College Library, MS 158

Provenance

Probably bequeathed to Eton College by Sir Henry Wotton.

Binding

18th century English calf binding by Slatter.

Subject

Subject

Women Biography Early works to 1800 Manuscripts.

Added entry--name

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

Added entry--name

Added entry--place

Italy.

Language code

lat

Identifier

B50124
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