Satirae

Description

Title: Satirae
Creator: Persius
Published / Created: [ca. 1400]
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Persius, Satirae 1.22-6, with argumenta added in the 15th century
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by one hand writing Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria, with a preference for round r and d with relatively short shaft.
Paragraph marks in red. All the majuscules, those at the opening of the verses and the others, are heightened with dark yellow. The Satires open with a 2-line flourished initial (a 3-line flourished initial for Satire 6) with marginal extensions, alternately in red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork.
Binding: 20th-21st century. Plain brown leather over cardboard. Yellowish paper endleaves.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. iii + iv + 15 + iii :
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment.
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Persius.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Verse satire, Latin
Subjects: Persius
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
Verse satire, Latin
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Persius, Satirae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.