Opera omnia
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16893173
Description
- Title
- Opera omnia
- Creator
- Caesar, Julius
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1450]
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico; Commentarii de Bello Civili; De Bello Alexandrino; De Bello Africo; and De Bello Hispaniensis
- Description
-
In Latin.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a small elegant humanistic bookhand.
Fine initials, gold capitals, 9- to 5- line, edged in yellow, filled with white-vine ornament, on blue, green, and red ground, decorated with yellow dots. Headings in red.
Binding: Fifteenth century. Wound sewing on four slit straps. Colored beaded endbands sewn onto cores of tawed skin laced and nailed into wooden boards. All edges gilt. The sewing straps are laced through tunnels in the edges of the boards and nailed in channels on the outside, protruding well above the face. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled with an eight-pointed star and corners filled in with rope-tool interlace interspersed with copper-colored dots, in a border of rectangular tools. Four catches on the lower board and stubs of red cloth (velvet?) straps lined with parchment held to the upper with star headed nails - Provenance
- Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 12277). Acquired by David Wagstaff from Davis and Orioli in 1942; gift of Mrs. David Wagstaff in 1943.
- Extent
- ff. i + 196 : 230 x 162 (154 x 94) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 87
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven.
Rome - Subject (Name)
- Caesar, Julius.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Latin prose literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
History - Subjects
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Caesar, Julius
Latin prose literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rome > History > 53-44 B.C.
Rome > History > Civil War, 43-31 B.C.
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Caesar, Opera Omnia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9800171
- Object ID (OID)
- 16893173