Shelfmark
MS 268
Author
Title
Julius Caesar. manuscript
Publication, distribution, etc.
Italy, between ca. 1450 and ca. 1500.
Physical description
1 volume (i, 171, i leaves) : parchment ; 33.5 x 23.5 cm.
Note
Book 1, f. 1; book 2, f. 13; book 3, f. 20; book 4, f. 25v; book 5, f. 31v; book 6, f. 42v; book 7, f.51; book 8, f. 67v; book 9, f. 76v; book 10, f. 92; book 11, f. 102; book 12, f. 125v; book 13, f. 142v; book 14, f. 162.
Note
The passage "[E]xceptus est Ce. Aduentus ... facile obtineri" (section 51, 52, 1-3 of book 8) is misplaced as the beginning of book 9, as in Florence, Laur., Plut. lat. 68.8 and many later manuscripts; "Litteris", properly the first word of book 9, begins a new paragraph.
Note
Manuscript seen but not examined by Virginia Brown, The textual transmission of Caesar's Civil War (1972), where it is listed on p. 64; identified as a conflated text of M and N and probably copied from a contaminated exemplar which had been corrected. See Ker, p. 797 n. 2 and curatorial note in the interleaved annotated copy M. R. James's Descriptive catalogue (ECL MS 932).
Note
"Gaii" expunged at the end of book 7.
Note
Fine smooth parchment in initial quires; later quires flecked on the hairsides.
Note
Written space: 220 x 125 mm.
Note
Layout: 36 long lines; double vertical bounders ruled with hard point (quire 2, pencil). The horizontal lines to guide the scribe are in light brown ink. No paragraphing within books except for the instance at the beginning of book 9.
Note
Collation: 1-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9-16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18⁶ wants 6, blank.
Note
Signatures: Quires 1-17 signed at end A-R.
Note
Script: Upright humanistic script.
Note
Initials and headings to books omitted; 9-line space for initial on f. 1 and normally a 6-line space for other initials.
Note
Secundo folio not recorded by Ker.
Note
Binding: Mid-16th-century greenish brown morocco, bound in Paris for Thomas Mahieu [Maioli]. For a full description see binding note below.
Note
Written in Italy; the script is probably Ferrarese.
Note
Provenance: No. XX in the list of bindings done for Thomas Mahieu [Maioli] (d. ca. 1585) in G. D. Hobson, Maioli, Canivari and others, 1926, p. 73, and the only manuscript known to have belonged to him.
Note
Provenance: Bound for Thomas Mahieu [Maioli]; previously belonged to the Venetian humanist Giovanni Battista Egnazio (1470-1553). For the manuscript's subsequent ownership history see provenance notes below.
Note
Provenance: A curatorial note in the interleaved annotated copy M. R. James's Descriptive catalogue (ECL MS 932) suggests that this manuscript may have passed through the hands of Grolier as an intermediate owner between Egnazio and Mahieu.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 797-8
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 268
Provenance
No. XX in the list of bindings done for Thomas Mahieu [Maioli] (d. ca. 1585) in G. D. Hobson, Maioli, Canivari and others, 1926, p. 73, and the only manuscript known to have belonged to him.
Provenance
The letting of the binding appears to record that the previous owner was the Venetian humanist Giovanni Battista Egnazio (1470-1553).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate inside front cover of Guy de Sève de Rochechouart (1640-1724), bishop of Arras; sold in June 1750 after the death of his nephew Guy de Sève to the Paris bookseller Prault.
Provenance
.Inscribed inside back cover "Demigieu 1752"; bought probably from Prault by the Marquis de Migieu. Recorded as no. 44 bis in his 1760 catalogue, printed by H. Omont in the Revue des Bibliothèques 11 (1901), pp. 235-296 (cf. p. 256).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate inside the front cover of the Richard family of Dijon, dated 1809.
Provenance
Purchased by John Hely-Hutchinson at the Landau-Finaly sale at Sotheby's, 12 July 1948, lot 33, and given by him to Eton College in June 1954.
Binding
Mid 16th-century Parisian binding of greenish brown morocco, executed for Thomas Mahieu ca. 1560. Narrow outer border composed of repetitions of an azured tool. Upper board lettered in gilt in the centre: C.IUL.CAES. / .COMMENT. / .IO.BAPT.AEGN. / .MANV. / SCR., and at the foot: .THO.MAIOLI.ET. / AMICORVM.; lower board lettered: .INIMICI. MEI. MEA. / .MICHI.NON.ME. / .MICHI. Gold-tooled spine with continuous pattern of azured and open tools and interlacing fillet. Vellum liner and endleaves. Described by H. M. Nixon, Twelve books in fine bindings from the library of J. W. Hely-Hutchinson, Roxburghe Club, 1953, pp. 20-1.
Subject
Subject
Gaul History Gallic Wars, 58-51 B.C. Manuscripts.
Subject
Rome History Civil War, 49-54 B.C. Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Mahieu, Thomas, 16th cent - 16th cent former owner.
Added entry--name
Egnazio, Giovanni Battista, ca. 1478 - 1553 former owner.
Added entry--name
Grolier, Jean, 1479 - 1565 associated name.
Added entry--name
Sève de Rochechouart, Guy de, 1640 - 1724 former owner.
Added entry--name
Prault, Pierre, 1685 - 1768 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Landau, Horace de, 1824 - 1903 former owner.
Added entry--name
Finaly Madame former owner.
Added entry--name
Hely-Hutchinson, J. W., 1882 - 1955 former owner.
Added entry--name
Sotheby's auctioneer.
Added entry--place
Italy.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B51122