EL 34 B 06, Satires...

San Marino, Huntington Library, EL 34 B 06. Text(s): Satires, Satires, Liber primus Iuvenalis Satyra prima, De proprietate sermonum. Description: ff. ii + 100 + ii - Bound, ca. 1840, in brown calf with the Bridgewater crest blind stamped on both covers. - Belonged to John Gunthorpe, dean of Wells, who was in Italy in the early 1460s (d. 1498); later owned by "Heron," when it was possibly bound with a Horace. The ownership of Gunthorpe and "Heron" is attested to by a note on f. 100v: "iuvenalis olim gunthorpi vuelli quondam decani, nunc autem heroni." Three Bridgewater pressmarks in the upper margin of f. 1:"__?___3" and "X3," both in the hand of John Egerton (1579-1649), 1st Earl of Bridgewater, both now cancelled, and "S:8./1." in the hand of the third Earl (1646-1701). - C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). De Ricci, 134. Part 1: ff. 1-100v. Description: - Paper and Parchment - Quires 1-5, Briquet, Lettre N 8440, Lucca 1451; remaining quires, Étoile, similar to Briquet 6027, Lucca 1457 - 155 x 211 mm - Parchment prepared in the southern manner, used for outer bifolia of all quires and for the central bifolia of quires 1-5; at least ff. 6 and 13, palimpsest. 1-6.