Walters Ms. W.81, History of the Destruction of Troy History of the Destruction of Troy Historia Destructionis Troiae Latin Poem on Drunkenness History of the Destruction of Troy with a Latin Poem on Drunkenness Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent. Guido de Coluna Guido delle Colonne Guido de Columnis Guido de Columna Cataloger Kauffman, Nicholas Cataloger Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934 Editor Herbert, Lynley Editor Noel, William Copy editor Dibble, Charles Contributor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Noel, William Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Conservator Evers, Jennifer Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This manuscript, probably made in the second half of the fourteenth century, bears witness to a long and lively history of use and collection. It contains a prose Latin history of the fall of Troy written in 1287 by Guido delle Colonne, whose account was enormously popular for several centuries after its composition and influenced, directly or in translation, the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare. This particular manuscript was likely made at a university for scholarly use, and its margins are filled with erudite notes from the fifteenth century. Many different individuals owned and signed the manuscript in its first centuries; one even wrote a Latin poem on drunkenness in one of its blank final pages. The manuscript eventually found its way into the hands of the notorious manuscript collector, Sir Thomas Phillipps. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.81 The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. 1r - 109v History of the Destruction of Troy with a Latin Poem on Drunkenness 1r - 106v History of the Destruction of Troy Historia Destructionis Troiae Licet cotidie vetera recentibus obruant Text divided into prologue and 34 books, concluding with two verse epitaphs and a colophon by Guido de Colonne 108v - 108v Latin Poem on Drunkenness Ebrietas fovet A short anonymous poem on drunkenness

Medium to heavy weight; well selected and prepared

 Foliation: ii+109+ii24.0 17.5 17.5 12.25 Modern pencil foliation, upper right corners, rectos

1-13(8), 14(6, -6) First four folios of each quire numbered (1-4) at bottom center of recto in brown ink; also marked below, in black ink, with a combination of Greek and Roman letters Catchwords in lower right corners of the last verso of each quire, written in text-hand with brown ink Quire 14 appears to be a gathering of four with an extra folio glued in at the front; quires begin on fols. 1(1), 9(2), 17(3), 25(4), 33(5), 41(6), 49(7), 57(8), 65(9), 73(10), 81(11), 89(12), 97(13), 105(14)

 Ruling in very thin ink visible around columns; prickings often visible at top and bottom An English cursive hand, probably fifteenth-century Highly compressed gothic script known as "textura," with many abbreviations Navy blue decorated initials within red squares, with red flourishes (2-7 lines); paragraph marks in red and blue; rubrics in red; text in medium-brown ink Decorated initial "L" Prologue Text page with decorated initial "L," 5 lines

Nineteenth-century binding, English; light brown calf with narrow decorative roll around edges and on spine; title stamped and gilt on spine; multicolored, comb-marbled pastedowns

 Second half of 14th century CE England Created in England, second half of fourteenth century; perhaps made in a university scriptorium (e.g. Oxford or Cambridge) Waler dei Klerla (?), fourteenth and fifteenth century (?); identified by very faint inscription on fol. 109r No. 38 in a fifteenth-century (?) English library; numbered in top margin of fol. 1r Homofredus Taylor, sixteenth century(?); inscribed twice on fol. 108v, along with the name "Atwodde" Robertus Nebbus, sixteenth century (?); inscription on 109r: "Robertus Nebbus me possidet" (Robert Nebbus owns me) Tailerus, sixteenth century (?); above inscription by Nebbus is written, "liber loquitur;" below is written, "veritas loquitur: Nequequam Nebbus te possidet, sed Tailerus" (The truth speaks: It is not Nebbus that owns you, but Tailerus) Edward Conway (d. 1631), ownership signature on fol. 109v Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, London, early nineteenth century; Thorpe's notation on upper right verso of first flyleaf; marked "Thorpe 1836" in pencil on center of the page (by Phillipps); his catalog no. 293 on verso of second flyleaf Sir Thomas Phillipps, bought in 1836 from Thorpe; cat. no. 9409; bookplate removed, but number remains on spine; "Phillipps Ms." written in pencil at the center of the verso of the first flyleaf, with number erased Sold at auction (Sothebys) by Thomas Fenwick (grandson of Phillipps) between 1893 and 1919; his inspection mark in interior upper corner of the verso of the first flyleaf after the manuscript with date 1893 Henry Walters, Baltimore, acquired before 1931 Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest Relevant Works Thorpe, Thomas. Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts, upon vellum and paper, collected in this and other countries, forming, it is presumed, the most important and interesting collection ever offered for sale, particularly rich in English, Irish and Scotish history, from the conquest to the present time. London, 1836. no. 293. De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 841, no. 484. Griffin, Nathaniel E., ed. Historia Destructionis Troiae. Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America, 1936. A critical edition of Guido's Latin text, with brief discussion of manuscripts (not W.81) in introduction. Phillipps, Thomas. Catalogus Manuscriptorum in Bibliotheca D. Thomae Phillipps, Bart. Middle Hill, 1837. Facsimile edition published as The Phillipps Manuscripts by The Holland Press, London, 1968. no. 9409. Art Medicine Museum Poetry Script Muhammad, the Prophet Kashmiri Horses Walters Art Museum Document Astrology Devotion History Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Philosophy Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Mineralogy Logic Geography Geomancy Cosmology Cartography Fortune-telling Koran Qur`an Firman Palimpsest Prayer Bible Gospels Psalter Missal Lectionary Book of Hours Antiphonary Homilary Processional Horologion Breviary Hymnal Chronicle Maghreb Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Afghanistan Central Asia Egypt England India Iran Iraq Pakistan Germany France Austria Netherlands Ethiopia Armenia Flanders Greece Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Armenian Byzantine Abbasid Qajar Rajput Christian Arabic Austrian Dutch Egyptian Fatimid German Indian Islamic Persian Safavid Timurid Turkish Umayyad English French Flemish Ethiopian Carolingian Calligraphy Colophon Headpiece Illumination Illustration Medallion Miniature Ornament Painting Early Abbasid script Ragini Romanesque Gothic Watermark Grotesques Historiated initial Inhabited initial White-vine lettering Textura Batarda Humanistic Uncial Accordion book Album Book Codex Manuscript Heraldry Saint's Life Drawing Grisaille Binding New Abbasid style Musical notation Russia Romania Charter Russian Genealogy Mass book Prayer book Gospel Lectionary Psalter-Hours Treatise Grammar Gloss Pontifical Private devotional text Gradual Protective scroll Scroll 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 8th century 9th century Block book Caroline minuscule Central Arab lands (Near East) Chart English secretary hand Kufic Gothic book hand Original binding Treasure binding Gospel Book Spanish Spain Italian Italy Coptic Scrapbook American United States Maryland Historical Society Friendship book Friendship Biography Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English English Book Codex Manuscript Walters Art Museum England 14th century History Treatise Colophon Literature -- Poetry