Epitome in libros Pompeii Trogi

Description

Title: Epitome in libros Pompeii Trogi
Creator: Justinus, Marcus Junianus
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1475]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Justinus, Epitome in libros Pompeii Trogi. Portions of the text in the first gathering are lacking; some leaves are misbound
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in neat italic by a single scribe who also added frequent marginal notes.
One fine 6-line initial (f. 1r), gold, with white-vine ornament, on blue, pink, and green ground decorated with white, gold, and blue dots extending into side and upper margins, the vines inhabited by birds, insects, and putto; gold dots and brown hairsprays. A coat of arms in lower margin (effaced and blotted out) supported by a winged putto, set in ornament similar to above. Large blue capitals, 5- to 4-line, in blue, throughout. Headings and Roman numerals for books (in upper margin of recto), in red, for ff. 1r-35r.
Binding: Nineteenth century. Citron goatskin, gold-tooled, by C. Lewis; his note regarding binding, in Latin, on f. ii recto.
Provenance: Collection of David Wagstaff. Gift of Mrs. David Wagstaff in 1943.
Extent: ff. ii + 116 + ii : 239 x 151 (151 x 92) mm.
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): Justinus, Marcus Junianus.
Trogus, Pompeius.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Justinus, Marcus Junianus
Trogus, Pompeius
Universal history
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Justinus, Epitome in libros Pompeii Trogi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.