MS 281: Robert Weston, Collectiones ex Homero

18th century set of notes and extracts from Latin, Greek and English texts (including Milton and passages from the Bible) relating to Homer's Iliad made by Robert Weston (matriculated St John's 1727, later a barrister at the Inner Temple, 1753).

1. Fol. 2r-36r: Weston, Robert. Collectiones ex Homero (from caption on fol. 2r). Latin, Greek & English. Single 18th c. hand in black ink. Written in long lines with ca. 24 lines to a page. Occasional divisional rules.

• a. Fol. 1: [blank excepting provenance inscriptions].
• b. Fol. 2r-36r: Collectiones ex Homero ... . [Caption]. Different sequence of notes for each book (of the Iliad?) denoted by a Greek letter: Alpha (fols 2r-13r), Beta (fols 13r-17v), Gamma (fols 18r-21r), Delta (fols 21v-24r), [Epsilon] (fols 24r-27r), [Zeta] (fols 27r-30r), [Eta] (fols 30r-32v), Theta (fols 33r-35v). With Iota as a caption to 36r, otherwise blank.
• c. Fol. 36v: [blank].

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On front pastedown 20th c. bookplate of St John's College, and also current shelfmark, in 20th c. pencil.

This catalogue entry derives from Stewart Tiley's unpublished descriptive catalogue of the post-1500 western manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford (2018). This entry was uploaded to ArchivesHub in April 2023 as part of the St John's College Library digitization project. To learn more about the project and to find digital resources, please visit the Digital Library

Inscriptions of Robert Weston on fol. 1r, and another dated 1735 on rear pastedown.