Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

MS. 43
Miscellany
Contents:
  1. Life of Homer
  2. Life of Fabius Camillus
  3. A Vergilian Panegyric to Charles, Prince of the Aragonese
  4. Excerpts from the Pseudo-Plutarchan "Parallela minora" translated by Guarinus of Verona
  5. An Oxford Treatise on Natural Limits
  6. De proportionibus libellus
Date of origin:After 1463.
Place of origin: Florence, Italy

Support: Paper codex with watermarks: hat (Briquet 3373).
Foliation: Two sets of modern foliation in lead can be observed in the top right corners and bottom left corners of the recto sides of folia.
Dimensions:298mm x 220mm (leaves), 195mm x 127mm (ruled space)
Collation:i 112 (-8) 26 (-4 and 5) 36 (-4) 42 512 (-10) 66 i. Ff. 1, 13, 19-20, 35v, and 36-9 are all blank.
Script:Written in humanist cursive in one or possibly two hands (the second hand entering on f. 29v).

Binding:The binding is of modern green paper on cardboard.
Additions:On the last folium (f. 39v), one line of hexametric verse has been written in another humanistic hand: "Omnia diuino cantauit carmine vates".
Provenance: As indicated by the 29 Nov. 1966 Sotheby's catalog, MS 43 was part of a manuscript belonging to Sir Thomas Phillipps.