Description
Alternative title
Flavius Blondus
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 202
Date created
[ca. 1442]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
36 lines to a page
Height (mm)
310
Width (mm)
223
Collation
1(10)-4(10) 5(6) 6(10)-20(10) 21 (six).
Writing
in a good Italic hand
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-202 + iii-iv
Provenance
Fol. 1r has a very fine full border of massive gold and colour, of characteristic Florentine work. Three times in the border occurs a blue shield with a representation of a barrel with a fire in it, set on an upright shaft upon a square base, and approached by a ladder. This is thought by George Williams, editor of the Correspondence of Bishop Bekynton (Rolls Series, I, xxxiii) to be the rebus of Thomas Bekynton (Beacon-tun), Bishop of Bath and Wells. Flavio Biondo (the author of the volume before us) was a correspondent of Bekynton's, and in a letter (I, p. 241) promises him a gift, which is probably this book. The letter in question was written at Florence in 1442.
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- MS 205 contains a mid-fifteenth-century copy of Flavio Biondo (1392-1463), Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii probably made in Florence, c. 1442. Although Thomas James' catalogue records the presence of this manuscript in Corpus Christi by 1600, it does not appear in Parker's register. The volume appears to have been intended as a gift for Thomas Beckington (1390?-1465), bishop of Bath and Wells, who was a correspondent of Biondo.
- Contents
- Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii
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