MS. Bywater 15
Humanist collection (fol. 145); Germany, early 16th century; bound with two printed books (fols. 8, 114)
Contents
Language(s): Latin with minor additions in German (fol. 252)
Originally blank leaves at the front of the volume containing lists of the Greek orators, seven wise men, and Greek and Latin writers in the same hand as fol. 246v below.
Flores poetarum de virtutibus et vitiis, Colonie, per Martinum de Werdena, 1505 (printed book)
Ringmannus Philesius (Matthias Ringmann), Hemistichia poetarum sentenciosiora pro pueris, Strasburg, 1505 (printed book)
each preceded by an argument in hexameters, the first of eight, the others of four lines, and by the arguments of Ascensius , as pr. in the edition of Lyons, 1499.
As printed.
Pr. in Baptistae Mantuani adolescentia, Strasburg, 1510.
Pr. Omnia Opera A. Mancinelli, Venice, 1519, here incomplete, the last citation being from Cicero, Pro Archia.
A dialogue on poetry, pr. Speier, n.d. (Proctor 2427), preceded as in the edition by:
Followed by:
Not pr. in the edition.
For Lantzberger and Berinus see G. Bauch, Geschichte des Leipziger Fruhhumanismus, Leipzig, 1899, pp.37–44
as pr. Nürnberg, 1501, the letters (fol. 217v) here preceded by
Preface of the translator Athanasius Constantinopolitanus (i.e. Athanasius Chalceopulus: cf. P. Kristeller, Studies in Renaissance Thought and Letters, III (1993), 30 n. 44)
Left blank by the scribe, later filled up by:
Five sapphic stanzas
One verse longer than the text pr. in Carmina Theologica, Maintz, 1544, fol.66
Followed by another brief medical note.
bk.II, extract, as pr. in J. Pistorius, Artis Cabalisticae Scriptorum, tom.I, Basle, 1587, pp.678–81
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
19–23 long lines
Hand(s)
written in several hands
Binding
contemporary German binding of blind stamped pigskin, with circular stamp showing paschal lamb, cf. Kyriss, Verzierte Gotische Einbände, Stuttgart, 1951, no.162, pl.326.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On the front inside cover if 'EHC', and 'Anno Verbigene MDXVI', both in the same hand; and a monogram incorporating the latters 'ACEHINPRST'
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1915.
Record Sources
Bibliography
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.