MS. Bywater 38
Humanist translations and texts, probably collected by Francesco Barbaro ; thirteen booklets bound together; Italian, Florence; 15th century (in part 1414)
Physical Description
Binding
Bound in 18th-century Italian plain parchment over pasteboards; the spine with four slightly raised cords, the second compartment with a paper label inscribed 'Misc. | Latina | MS. | Saec. 15' over an older inscription; fine endpapers printed in red and gilt; traces of leather and of ferrous corrosion on fols. i and 260 suggest a previous binding was of brown leather, and had metal fitting at the corners and centre of each cover.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Francesco Barbaro, procurator of S. Marco, 15th century: a list of contents in his hand (fol. 1v) is headed: 'In hoc volumine patricii veneti francisci barbari procuratoris sancti m[arci] infrascripta continentur.', which must have been written between January 1452 and his death in 1454 (for a facsimile of a similar inscription, see B. Pighi, Catulli Codex Bononiensis 2621 (Bologna, 1950), pl. 1c).
Giambatista Recanati (1687–1735) : additions to the titles on fols. 134r and 228r in his hand; probably identical with the MS. in his library mentioned by G. Agostini, Scrittori Viniziani(Venice: 1754) I, 223, as containing the item starting on fol. 74r.
Jacopo Soranzo (1686–1761) ; with his characteristic 'bold foliation'; numeration and page references added to the list of contents (fol. 1v) by Francesco Melchiori, Soranzo's librarian (cf. Mitchell, 1969, pls. XI, XIV).
Matteo Luigi Canonici (1727–1806) .
Giuseppe Canonici (d. 1807) : Matteo died intestate, and his MSS. passed to his brother.
Giovanni Perisinotti : on Giuseppe's death in 1807, the MSS., about 3550 in number, passed to Perisinotti, and after many attempts to sell them, 2045 of them were acquired by the Bodleian in 1817; another group was sold at Sotheby's in 1821; and the remainder, 915 in number, were sold to Sneyd in 1834.
Rev. Walter Sneyd, of Denton House, Cuddeston (1809–1888) : his sale, Sotheby's 16 Dec. 1903 and three following days, lot 77, bought by J. Barnard for 1 shilling.
Bequeathed by him in 1915.
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 2–27a
Contents
, in the Latin translation by Guarino of Verona , with the dedicatory letter to Francesco Barbaro .
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 27b-62
Contents
in the Latin translation by Guarino of Verona (cf. Sabbadini, La Scuola e gli studi de Guarino (Catania: 1896), 132), but here attributed to Giacomo d'Angelo della Scarperia ; fols. 56r-62v are blank.
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 63–67b
Contents
in the Latin translation by Guarino of Verona ; in the same hand as the first text; fols. 65r-67ar are blank.
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 68–91
Contents
Ascribed at the end to Martinus Veronensis.
Fols. 87v-91v blank.
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 92–99
Contents
For other MSS. see G. Agostini, Scrittori Viniziani (Venice: 1754) II, 154; fol 99v blank.
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 100–133
Contents
Translated by Guarino da Verona ; preceded by the dedicatory letter to Leonello d'Este (pr. Sabbadini, Epistolario di Guarino, II, 260–2); fols. 128v-133v are blank.
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 134–147
Contents
in a translation attributed in the list of contents to Guarino da Verona ; preceded by a dedicatory letter to P. Emiliani (pr. E. L[obel], 'A letter of Guarino and other things', The Bodleian Quarterly Record, 5 (1926), 43–46, at 44–45); fols. 146v-147v are blank.
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 148–157
Contents
in the translation by Guarino da Verona
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 158–187
Contents
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 188–197
Contents
fol. 197r-v is ruled, otherwise blank.
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 198–227
Contents
fols. 223v-227v are blank.
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 228–243
Contents
translated by Giacomo d'Angelo delle Scarperia
fol. 243r-v is blank.
History
MS. Bywater 38, fols. 244–260
Contents
History
Additional Information
Record Sources
Digital Images
Digital Bodleian (19 images from 35mm slides)
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-08-21: Corrected identification of text on fols. 158r-165v.