File NLW MS 22080E. - Fragment of Livy,

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NLW MS 22080E.

Title

Fragment of Livy,

Date(s)

  • [c. 1460-1470]. (Creation)

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Extent and medium

2 ff. : Parchment ; 365 x 260 mm. (written space 245 x 135 mm., 36 lines). Leaves used as wrapper.

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Archival history

Three marginal notes by an italic hand of 15 or 16 cent. On f. 1, 'Mr Graves writtings and papers and ould deeds', 17 cent., by which date the leaves must have been in use as a wrapper.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Mr M. Scott Archer; Crickhowell; Purchase; 1985

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A bifolium containing the text of Livy, Book XXX, xiii.1 to xv.12 and xxviii.1 to xxx.10. Written by a scribe apparently active in Florence c. 1460-1470 who also wrote MSS Genoa, Bibl. Durazzo B.III.18, Vatican Urb. Lat. 51 and Oxford, Lincoln College Lat. 59, given to the College by Robert Flemmyng.

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Language of material

  • Latin
  • English

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Latin, English.

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Finding aids

The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22080E.

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vtls004265459

GEAC system control number

(WlAbNL)0000265459

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This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.

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  • English

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  • Text: NLW MS 22080E.