MS. Bodl. 80

Summary Catalogue no.: 2268

Rubric: Sinesius Cyrenensis philosophus et orator de laudibus Caluitii

(Latin translation, from Greek, by John Free)

Two prefaces, one by Omnibonus Leonicenus to Free, dated from Vicenza July 9 1461 (fol. 3), and one from Free dedicating the work to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester (fol. 5v)

The text is corrected in several places

Some neatly-written 17th century notes are on fol. 2v

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

ii + 44 leaves

Dimensions (binding): 7.5 × 4.875 in.

Hand(s)

Italian Humanistic script

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 608, Pl. LIX

Fine border

Fine initials (faceted capitals, cf. MS. Bodl. 646)

Besides some finely-illuminated capitals there is on fol. 4v a painted architrave supported by pillars resting on a marble plinth, with an inscription (Summary Catalogue)

History

Origin: c. 1461 ; Italy, Padua

Provenance and Acquisition

This appears to be the copy given to John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester (see preface on fol. 5v) but on fol. 5r are the arms of Beckington, presumably Thomas Beckington, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who died in January 1464/1465

Glastonbury, Somerset, Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin: 'Hunc librum de laude caluorum domino Petro Weston monacho glastoniensi dono quod [?] dedit venerabilis pater Iohannes Selwode Abbas Glastoniensis' [abbot 1457-1493] (on flyleaf, fol. 1r) (MLGB3)

Julius Palmer, William Lile, Jeremias Warner, Edward Bowton? (16th century, fols. 1-2)

"Bought from Rev. Lionel Day's library (1640)" (Summary Catalogue I. 112, sub anno 1654).

Record Sources

Description adapted (April 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1922). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1973)

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 286

Summary Catalogue, vol. 2, part 1, p. 287