Manchester. The John Rylands Library, Latin MS 48

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  • Latin MS 48
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Language
  • Latin
Title
    • Epitoma de Tito Liuio
    • De uiris illustribus Romae
    • Breuiarium rerum gestarum populi Romani
    • Epitoma de Tito Liuio
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Description
  • Extent:
    ff. 167 (165+ii) Leaf height: 213 mm, width: 152 mm.
    Binding:

    Leather over boards, painted with bands. Five plain round bosees on each cover.


    Acquisition:

    Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.


    Layout:

    One column, 26-29 lines to a page


    Collation:

    Quire a2, 1 stuck to cover
    Quires 1-98, 8 cancelled
    Quires 10-1710
    Quire 186
    Quire 198, 8 stuck to cover


    Script:

    Folios 1r-43r written in gothic by the first scribe

    Folios 43v-145r written in gothic by a second scribe

    Folios 146r-164r written in gothic by a third scribe


    Data Source(s):
    Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge.
    Subject(s):
    Florus, Lucius Annaeus; Victor, Sextus Aurelius; Rufus, Sextus
    Abstract:

    Miscellany of Roman works by Florus, Sextus Rufus and more, produced in Italy, probably Florence but perhaps Rome, in the mid-to-late 15th century. In three hands.


    Format:
    Codex
    Material:
    Parchment.
    Provenance:

    Purchased by James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford from S. Calvary and Co., publisher of Berlin for £25 in February 1885 (CLL, Jan.-June 1885, no. 30).

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