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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.53) | |
|---|---|
| Language: | Latin and Greek, with English |
| Origin: | England |
| Date: | 18th c., ca. 1750 – 1775 (first pp. 1 – 4 post 1765) |
| Material: | Paper. Watermark; Britannia within crowned oval |
| Physical Description: | iii paper flyleaves + 360 pages (paginated 1 – 4, 1 – 365) + i paper flyleaf, 188 x 150 (ca. 150 – 160 x 130) mm, unruled, ca. 22 – 24 long lines |
| Rubric: | Inscriptio Sigea |
| Incipit: | Fas sit, juvante Deo, spectatissimum totius Asiae Monumentum orbi literato tradere |
| 2o folio: | moto circa eam |
| Explicit: | (p. 355) et Herculem invenimus et mereurium |
| Contents: | pp. 1 – 4 (first pagination), Extract from ‘Travels in Asia Minor, or an Account of a Tour made at the expence of the Society of Dilletanti (sic) by Richard Chandler DD etc., 1764 & -5’; pp. 1 – 355 (main pagination), Inscriptio Sigea, with a Commentary by Edmund Chishull |
| Script: | Cursive mixed hand |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | Bookplate of P. Duncan, 19th / 20th c. (inside upper cover) |
| Binding: | 18th c., half marbled paper and brown leather over paste boards, endbands lost; boards detached |
| Notes: | The bifolium paginated 1 – 4 preceding the main paginated text is in a different hand from the main MS, and appears to have been inserted at the time of the current binding. Neither Edmund Chishull (1671 – 1733) or Richard Chandler (1737 – 1810) appear to have Trinity Hall connections. |
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| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
