{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Former Owner(s)", "value": "Lindsay, James Ludovic, 1847-1913" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Leather over boards, painted with bands. Five plain round bosees on each cover.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Decoration", "value": "" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Florus" }, { "label": "Acquisition", "value": "

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847, d. 1913), 26th Earl of Crawford. Bequeathed by Rylands to the John Rylands Library in 1908.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Layout", "value": "

One column, 26-29 lines to a page<\/p>" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "middle or third quarter of the 15th century" }, { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Florence" }, { "label": "Origin", "value": "

Florence, Italy, middle or third quarter of the 15th century. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Collation", "value": "

Quire a2<\/sup>, 1 stuck to cover
Quires 1-98<\/sup>, 8 cancelled
Quires 10-1710<\/sup>
Quire 186<\/sup>
Quire 198<\/sup>, 8 stuck to cover
<\/div>
<\/p>" }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Folios 1r-43r<\/a> written in gothic<\/i> by the first scribe<\/p><\/div>

Folios 43v-145r<\/a> written in gothic<\/i> by a second scribe<\/p><\/div>

Folios 146r-164r<\/a> written in gothic<\/i> by a third scribe<\/p><\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Description based on M.R. James, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library at Manchester<\/i> (Manchester, 1921), reprinted with an introduction and additional notes and corrections by F. Taylor (München, 1980), revised and expanded by Joanne Edge." }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "The John Rylands Library" }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "ff. 167 (165+ii) Leaf height: 213 mm, width: 152 mm." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Latin MS 48" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Florus, Lucius Annaeus; Victor, Sextus Aurelius; Rufus, Sextus" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Joanne Edge" }, { "label": "Abstract", "value": "

Miscellany of Roman works by Florus, Sextus Rufus and more, produced in Italy, probably Florence but perhaps Rome, in the mid-to-late 15th century. In three hands.<\/p>