Michael Winterbottom (b. 1934) is Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford and Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Details are given in Who's Who.

Microfilms and reproductions mostly of medieval and renaissance manuscripts of Latin classical texts, collected by Dr Michael Winterbottom, consisting of:

• Quintilian, Institutio oratoria - see M. Winterbottom's edition, Oxford Classical Texts, 2 vols., 1970, and his articles, 'Fifteeth-century manuscripts of Quintilian' in The Classical Quarterly, N.S. 17 (1967), pp. 339-69, and 'Quintilian, Institutio oratoria' in Texts and Transmission: a survey of the Latin classics (ed. L.D. Reynolds), Oxford 1983, pp. 332-4.
• Quintilian (?), Declamationes minores - see M. Winterbottom's edition, The Minor Declamations ascribed to Quintilian (= Texte und Kommentare, 13), Berlin & New York 1984; and his article, 'Quintilian (?), Declamationes minores', in Texts and Transmissions, p. 337.
• Tacitus, Minor Works: Dialogus, Germania - see M. Winterbottom's edition (with R.M. Ogilvie) of Cornelii Taciti opera minora, Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford 1975, and his articles 'The transmission of Tacitus' Dialogus', Philologus, 116 (1972), pp. 114-28, 'The manuscript tradition of Tacitus' Germania', Classical Philology, 70 (1975), pp. 1-7, and 'Tacitus, Minor Works', in Texts and Transmission, pp. 410-11.
• Abbo of Fleury, Vita S. Edmundi - see M. Winterbottom's edition, in Three Lives of English Saints (Toronto Medieval Latin Texts), Toronto 1972, esp. pp. 8-10, 12-13, 65-87, 91-2.
• Other texts

The microfilms and reproductions were given to the Library by Professor Michael Winterbottom in 1990.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

The originals are located in various places, see catalogue for further details.

A full description is available in the Library.

See Scope and Content

Classical literature

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Abbo of Fleury | ? 945-1004 | French monk

Cornelius Tacitus | Publius or Gaius | 56-? 120 | Latin teacher and writer

Fabius Quintilianus | Marcus | 35-? 96 | Roman rhetorician

Fleury | Abbo of | ? 945-1004 | see Abbo of Fleury

Quintilian | 35-? 96 | see Fabius Quintilianus, Marcus

Tacitus | 56-? 120 | see Cornelius Tacitus, Publius or Gaius

Winterbottom | Michael | b 1934 | Corpus Christi Professor of Latin