A catalogue of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and selected Oxford colleges

MS. Bywater 35

Contents

(fol. 5r-139r)
Theodore Gaza, Grammatica
Language(s): Greek

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper

Decoration

Headpieces and large initials of penwork ornament

Binding

contemporary Italian binding

History

Origin: Italian, Venice (?); c. 1460–80

Provenance and Acquisition

Written in Italy by Johannes Rhosos of Crete (colophon, fol. 139r)

Bateman family of Middleton Hall, Youlgrave, Derbyshire, 19th cent. (book-plate, upper pastedown)

Ingram Bywater

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1915.

Record Sources

Abbreviated from B. Crostini Lappin, Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts acquired by the Bodleian Library since 1916 (2003), pp. 9–12

Bibliography

Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.