MS. St. Amand 32
Summary Catalogue no.: 10750
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Greek passages left blank.
Marginal notes, mostly summarizing the text, mostly by the scribe, but also in other hands.
Corrections to the text and variant readings in more than one hand.
Pasted to fol. ii verso is a rectangle of paper (180 × 82 mm.) containing a late-fifteenth-century (?) note on the Julian reform of the calendar (cf. Suetonius, Diuus Iulius, 40); possibly by one of the hands which annotates the main volume.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Ruled in drypoint, in one column of 36 lines. Single horizontal and vertical bounding lines extending the full width of the page. Written above top line, 37 lines per page.
Hand(s)
One scribe, writing a current cursive humanistic script.
Decoration
Spaces left for initials not filled in.
Running heads added in a later hand.
Binding
Modern; nineteenth-century (?).
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Medieval provenance unknown.
James St Amand (d. 1755)
Bequeathed by him to the Library.
Record Sources
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-08-24: Description fully revised.