Transcript of Baxter's commentary on Juvenal

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23973B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004494850
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1732-1737
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • ix, 287 ff. (original foliation 1-287 with errors; text mostly on rectos) ; 190 x 150 mm.
      Bound in nineteenth-century morocco over boards with triple blind fillets and marbled endpapers by Hatton Binder, Manchester; Macclesfield arms in gold on front cover and blind stamped on ff. iv verso and v; 'G. BAXTERI IN JUVENALIS SATYRAS ANNOTATIONES QUAE SUPERSUNT OMNES 1737 MS' (in gold on spine); gilded page edges.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A transcript, 1732-1737 (ff. ii and v), by Moses Williams of William Baxter's commentary on Juvenal, taken from Baxter's manuscript (now NLW MS 23975D) and probably intended for use as printer's copy.
The transcript reproduces the text of Baxter's commentary (ff. 1-286), his life of Juvenal (ff. vi-viii) and classical quotes (f. ix) but omits the text of the Satires; the notes are identified by line number rather than Baxter's individual numbering. The text is written on rectos only, with occasional comments and corrections on versos. An engraving of Baxter pasted into the volume as a frontispiece (f. iii verso) is apparently taken from a copy of his Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum (London: W. Bowyer, 1719, ESTC T40850). Part of the text is displaced, with f. 77 following on from f. 78, evidently an error on the part of Williams. The text of ff. 1-2 was published as a specimen in Williams' - Proposals for printing by subscription D. Gulielmi Baxteri quæsupersunt enarrationes & notæ in D. Junii Juvenalis satyras (London: [William] Bowyer, 1732, ESTC T135764).

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23973B.

Custodial History

Armorial book plate, 1860, of the Earls of Macclesfield's North Library [at Shirburn Castle] inside front cover, with manuscript press mark 73.G.16.

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