MS. Savile 13
Summary Catalogue no.: 6560
Contents
The 1st book of Euclid's Elements of Geometry, followed by the 2nd to the 15th books: the last two leaves injured.
There are diagrams and scholia.
Cf. fol. 314, in parts damaged, ending with a circle of the winds.
Fol. iv bears a Greek note which appears to be dated A.D. 1335.
Latin 15th-cent. notes written in Italy are on fol. 315.
Physical Description
Condition
Decoration
Diagrams.
Binding
Brown stamped leather on boards, worn, with bosses (except one) and clasps lost, 15th-century work
History
Provenance and Acquisition
In Italy in the 15th century (see above).
Bequeathed by Dr Peter Turner, who died in January 1650/1651
About 1680 it was 'challenged by Dr Wallis' and carried off to the Savilian library.
Record Sources
Bibliography
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Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2023-12-12: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1937)