- Creator:
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 234
- Image Count:
- 160
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in gothic bookhand. Marginal and interlinear annotations in less formal scripts., 8 large initials, 10- to 7-line, of poor quality, pink against gold ground thickly edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, green, orange, and yellow on blue ground. Foliage serifs, pink, blue, orange and yellow with white filigree extending into margins to form partial borders. Gold balls, thickly edged in black. Numerous small initials, 5- to 3-line, pink against gold ground edged in black, filled with stylized foliage, orange and yellow on blue ground. Numerous flourished initials, 2- to 1-line, alternate in red and blue with brown or red penwork. Headings in red by at least two rubricators. Paragraph marks in blue for chapters in tables preceding each book; in red and blue for text., Folio 1r damaged with some loss of text. Most of the decoration is badly rubbed and stained., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brown leather case, blind- and gold-tooled. Title (citing portion of table of contents for Book II, f. 1r) on spine: "De institutis/ antiquis/ de disciplina/ militari/ de iure" and "Triumphandi".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Facta et dicta memorabilia
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- Creator:
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 651
- Image Count:
- 147
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of assorted works by Cicero with additional texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: 1) Human bust, var. Briquet 15599?. 2) Balance, var. Piccard, Waage 1.78?. (3) Crown, unidentified?., Script: Written by two scribes, one writing in Italian Gothica Hybrida or Semihybrida Libraria and the other in a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria/Formata with numerous decorative hairlines., Red paragraph marks. Art. 3 has yellow heightening of the majuscules, a 2-line and a 3-line flourished initial in red, blue and yellow. In art. 1 the majuscules are heightened in red; there are plain red initials in art. 5, but its decoration is not consistent., and Binding: Damaged original binding in deerskin over heavy almost unbevelled wooden boards. Parchment pastedowns, the front one detached from the board. On the front cover inscription in large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata, worn and difficult to decipher. On the spine a 17th-century paper label with the number "2760" and the title "Huma (?)......Marci Tulii de amicitia manu scripta". Marks of two leather straps fixed to the front cover, the pin holes visible in the rear cover.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
- Subject (Topic):
- Didactic literature, Latin and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Opusculum de vitiis