Historia Romana; With Festus, Breviarium historiae Romanae

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Title: Historia Romana; With Festus, Breviarium historiae Romanae
Alternative Title: Paulus Diaconus, Festus
Creator: Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Rufus, Sextus
Contributor: Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799? Historia Romana
Rufus, Sextus
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Paulus Diaconus (d. after 744), Historia Romana (adaptation and continuation of Eutropius [4th century], Breviarium ab Urbe condita), with the additional Book 17. 2) Festus (4th century), Breviarium historiae Romanae.
Description: Binding: Nineteenth-century. Brown-black marbled paper over pasteboard.
Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, San Francisco (MS 40). Purchased from him on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Numerous underlinings and contemporary marginal captions and notes in Gothica Semihybrida Currens throughout the manuscript, written by probably two German readers. Pointing hands.
Pale red headings. Gothic calligraphic initials in brown ink of various sizes, with guide-letters in the left margin: 3 lines at the head of each paragraph (art. 1 only), 6-7 lines at the opening of each Book.
Script: Copied by one hand in Humanistica Cursiva Libraria under Gothic influence (d mostly Uncial).
Watermark: crossbow (?).
Extent: ff. i + 75 + i : paper ; 290 x 215 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: mixed material
Genre: Manuscripts
Marginalia
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Rome -- History
Subject (Name): Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799? Historia Romana
Rufus, Sextus
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Paulus Diaconus, Festus. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9661914
Object ID (OID): 9998985
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms742.htm