MS. Holkham misc. 36

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

1. (fols. 1r-)

starting imperfect in II.xxi.3, due to the loss of the first quires and the first leaf of the second. This is MS. L of the editions.

Language(s): Latin

2. (fols. 18r-)

Petrarch, Metrical epistles,

starting imperfect in II.13.13 due to the loss of four quires at the beginning. The top half of fol. 30vb contains the first nineteen lines of the Africa.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: iii (paper) + 30 + iii (paper).

Dimensions (leaf): 250 × 180–5 mm.

Dimensions (ruled): 195–210 × 150 mm.

Foliation: Modern pencil: i-iii, 1–33; early foliations of the Propertius begins at '10' on fol. 1r; and of the Petrarch at '17' on fol. 18, suggesting that only two quires of 8 each are missing, despite a previous Bodleian cataloguer's statement that four quires are lost.

Collation

(1 missing), 2(8)(wants 1), 3(8), 4(2 + (1–4 missing), 5(8), 6(6) (6 canc.)

Layout

39–42, 44 written lines, 'above top line'; in 2 columns.

Hand(s)

Written and signed by John of Campofregosa in 1421 (see under Provenance).

Decoration

Plain red and blue initials

Binding

Typical Holkham binding of polished and diced brown leather; the spine lettered in gilt from top to bottom 'PROPERTII CARM. – PETREARCÆ EPIST. ELEG. – MS.MCCCCXXI.'; boxed.

History

Origin: Italian, Genoa (?); 1421

Provenance and Acquisition

Scribal colophon in red: 'Mº ccccºxxºi. die xa octobr. | Hic tua properti perfeci scripta Iohannes | Campofregosa stirpe pia genitus.' (fol. 17r).

Said by L. Dorez to have belonged to Giuseppe Valletta (1636–1714), of Naples (on whom see Hassall, 1970, 22, 22 n. 9).

Bookplate of 'THOMAS WILLIAM COKE', formerly Norfolk, Holkham Hall, MS. 333.

Record Sources

Draft description by Peter Kidd, late 1990s

Bibliography

Printed descriptions:

A. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries (1984), no. 524

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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