- Published / Created:
- circa 1460-1469.
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 712.189
- Container / Volume:
- (File)
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing an illustration of the execution of the general Vitruvius, as described in Book 8, chapter 20 of Livy's Ab urbe condita (History of Rome). The verso contains 18 incomplete lines of text in French
- Description:
- In Middle French., Tipped onto a cardboard mount. Bookseller description pasted to the reverse of the mount., Script: bâtarde script., and Decoration: the miniature is full-color with shading in gold, edged with a narrow burnished gold frame.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Livy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Illumination from a French version of Livy's Ab urbe condita (fragment).
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