Record for MS. Bywater adds. 1

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		  <did> 
			 <unitid type="Shelfmark">MS. Bywater adds. 1</unitid> 
			 <unitid type="SCN">Not in SC (late accession): no description
				available</unitid> 
			 <unittitle> 
				<persname role="Author">Cicero</persname>, 
				<title>De oratore</title> 
				<geogname role="Place of origin">Italian, Florence</geogname> 
				<unitdate>15th century, dated 1441</unitdate> </unittitle> 
			 <physdesc> 
				<genreform>Codex</genreform> <physfacet
				type="Material">parchment</physfacet><dimensions type="Leaf" unit="mm">The
				leaves <emph render="italic">c</emph>. 270 x 175 mm.</dimensions> <extent>v
				(two 19th-cent. parchment flyleaves, with a two-leaf letter on paper inserted
				between them; followed by an original parchment flyleaf) + 141 + ii
				(19th-century parchment flyleaves).</extent> <physfacet
				type="Foliation">Foliated in modern pencil: i-v, 1-143.</physfacet>
				<physfacet type="Collation">I-IV<emph render="super">10</emph> (fols. 1-40),
				V<emph render="super">8</emph> (fols. 41-48), VI-XIV<emph
				render="super">10</emph> (fols. 49-138), XV<emph render="super">6-3</emph>
				(4th, 5th, 6th leaves canc.). Quires are arranged with a hair-side outermost;
				alphabetical quire signatures in the lower gutter corner of the last verso of
				each quire except the last: 'A' - 'O', between two dots (the last two
				surrounded by four dots); small pencil quire numbers in arabic numerals, in the
				bottom gutter corner of the first recto of quires, are presumably by Lewis (see
				under Binding). </physfacet> <physfacet type="Ruling">Ruled in blind for 27
				lines of text per page; usually with the first half of the quire with the
				indentations on the recto, the second half on the verso; but sometimes with the
				indentations on the flesh-side of leaves in a quire; with pairs of vertical
				bounding lines, extending almost the full height of the page; the top two and
				bottom two horizontals extending almost the full width of the page; the ruling
				apparently executed with a ruling-board, since the horizontals do not cross the
				verticals; the ruled space <emph render="italic">c</emph>. 173-4 x 102-3
				mm.</physfacet> <physfacet type="Script">Written in a fine humanistic script,
				attributable to Jacopo da Udine (see under Provenance).</physfacet>
				<physfacet type="Rubrication">Headings in reddish ink.</physfacet>
				<physfacet type="Sec. fol.">'sepenumero'.</physfacet> <physfacet
				type="Binding">Sewn on five bands, and bound in gilt-tooled blue-green leather
				over rather thick pasteboards (?), by Charles Lewis between 1821 and 1827 (see
				under Provenace); a pattern of marks near the gutter of fol. v recto suggests
				that a previous sewing was on four bands.</physfacet> </physdesc> 
		  </did> 
		  <scopecontent> 
			 <head>Text</head> 
			 <p>(fols. 1r-141r) 'MARCI. TVLLII. CICERONIS. AD. QUINTVM. FRATREM.
				DE. ORATORE. LIBER. PRIMUS INCIPIT. FELICITER. Cogitanti mihi sepenumero et
				memoria uetera repetenti perbeati fuisse .Q. frater illi uideri solent: ...
				disputationis animos nostros curamque laxemus. FINIS.', followed by a colophon
				(see under Provenance); the scribe also wrote marginal annotations, and a note
				on fol. v verso; fol. 141v is blank.</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		  <scopecontent> 
			 <head>Decoration</head> 
			 <p>Each of the three books with a fine 7- or 8-line illuminated white
				vine-stem initial, the letter in gold, the vine-stems against a green and
				reddish ground, the whole on a blue field, with foliate extensions into the
				margins, each with a bird, the first two also with a butterfly: 
				<list> 
				  <item>Book I (fol. 1r): inhabited by a putto wielding a spear
					 (Sotheby &amp; Co., 1972, pl. facing p. 19).</item> 
				  <item>Book II (fol. 44r): inhabited by a reclining (?)
					 cherub.</item> 
				  <item>Book III (fol. 103r): with no figure.</item> 
				</list>The decoration is now attributed to Bartolomeo di Antonio
				Varnucci (1410 (?) - 1479) (cf. references under MS. Buchanan c. 1) by A.C. de
				la Mare, who formerly attributed it to Battista di Biagio Sanguini (<emph
				render="italic">c</emph>. 1392-1451).</p> 
		  </scopecontent> 
		  <admininfo> 
			 <custodhist> 
				<head>Provenance</head> 
				<p>1. Signed and dated by the scribe, identifiable as Jacopo da
				  Udine (on whom see Alexander and de la Mare, 1969, p. xxvii n. 2), Florence, 30
				  April 1441: 'Iacob scripsit Florentiae... Pridie kl. Maias M.cccc.xli.',
				  followed by a four-line poem (also found in MS. Canon. class. lat. 309; see
				  Walther, 1963-69, no. 32412; Sotheby &amp; Co., 1972, reproduction on p.
				  19).</p> 
				<p>2. Marginal notes in various humanistic hands.</p> 
				<p>3. Guido Lolli or Loglio of Reggio, 16th century (on whom see 
				  <bibref>Girolamo Tiraboschi, 
					 <title>Biblioteca Modense: o Notizia della Vita e delle Opere
						degli Scrittori Natii degli Stati del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modena</title>
					 III (Modena, 1783</bibref>), 95-100): signed 'Guido Lolgius', fol. v recto.</p>
				
				<p>4. Giovanni and Giulio Saibante of Verona: this book does not
				  bear the usual marks found in manuscripts from the Canonici collection, yet was
				  sold by Celotti in the Canonici-Saibante sale at Sotheby's, 26 Feb. 1821 and
				  two following days, lot 113; bought by Drury for £9.</p> 
				<p>5. Rev. Henry Drury (1778-1841), of Harrow, bound for him by
				  Charles Lewis: his inscription on fol. i recto; sold by Evans, 1827, lot 1202;
				  bought by Longman.</p> 
				<p>6. Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield (1774-1839): an inserted
				  letter is signed 'S. Lichfield' (fols. ii-iii).</p> 
				<p>7. Sir Henry Halford, Bart. (1766-1844): given
				  <emph render="italic">c</emph>. 1838 by Butler to Halford, his doctor.</p> 
				<p>8. Bernard Quaritch?: inscribed with a 19th-century price-code:
				  'a/a/-' (this would represent £5 5s in Quaritch's 'King Alfred' pricecode).</p>
				
				<p>9. Rt. Hon. Lord Cottesloe, 'by descent'; sold at Sotheby &amp;
				  Co., 10 July 1972, lot 27.</p> 
				<p>10. Miss Robin Tomkinson, 1973, with her bookplate; bequeathed
				  to the Bodleian in 1984.</p> 
			 </custodhist> 
		  </admininfo> 
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			 <bibliography> 
				<p> 
				  <bibref>Sotheby, 
					 <title>Saibante and Canonici manuscripts: a catalogue of a
						singularly rare collection of manuscripts on paper and vellum ... the whole are
						in fine condition, and were brought to this country by the Abbé Celotti ... Mr.
						Sotheby ... 26th of February, 1821 and two following days</title> (London,
					 1821), lot 113.</bibref></p> 
				<p> 
				  <bibref>Evans, 
					 <title>A catalogue of the extensive and valuable library of the
						Rev. Henry Drury, M.A., late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Rector of
						Fingest, Bucks, F.R.S. F.S.A., consisting of an extraordinary collection of
						classical and theological manuscripts. ... which will be sold by auction by Mr.
						Evans at his house, No. 93, Pall-Mall, on Monday, February 19, and eleven
						following days; and on Monday, March 12, and ten following days, (Sundays
						excepted.) 1827</title> (London, Evans, 1827), lot 1202.</bibref></p> 
				<p> 
				  <bibref>Sotheby &amp; Co., 
					 <title>Catalogue of western manuscripts and miniatures and a
						Hebrew manuscript ... which will be sold by auction by Sotheby &amp; Co. ...
						10th July, 1972</title> (London, 1972), lot 27, with pl. and reproduction of
					 colophon</bibref> </p> 
			 </bibliography> 
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