Manuscript on parchment of Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (c. 60-c.140), Satirae 6-16. With a survey of the sixteen Satires of Juvenal, with their incipits and subjects.
Description:
2-line plain inset initials (Capitalis) alternately red and blue, with guide letters. Between two successive Satires 1 line is left blank. In the lower margin of p. 9 there is a clumsy drawing in pale ink of a rabbit (?); an unidentified drawing (part of a dress?) is seen in the lower margin of p. 38 and part of the same in the lower margin of p. 99 (with offset on p. 98)., Binding: Nineteenth century, England. White parchment over cardboard, the covers gold-tooled with a double frame of fillets and a small circular stamp in the corners; the spine entirely gold-tooled with various designs; at its top a red leather label with the gold-tooled title “IVVENALIS / MS.”; at the bottom a small label in the same material and colour with the gold-tooled inscription “SÆC. / XV.” Dark red marbled endleaves. Gilt edges., Modern pagination employed in description., and Script: Rapidly copied by one hand in a linear and sloping Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria/Currens close to Cursiva.
Manuscript on parchment of Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Satirae. With a Survey of the Satires copied in Satirae, with their incipits and subjects and Quotations and proverbs, added by a later hand.
Description:
Binding: Original Italian brown leather over thin wooden boards, the covers blind-tooled and decorated with gold dots. Spine with three raised bands. Remnants of two clasps, attached to the front cover by means of brass nails with engraved heads; palmette-shaped thin brass catches fixed to the rear cover with three nails each. The pastedowns and flyleaves are covered with carefully written notes and quotations on grammar, morals, education, etymology and meaning of rare words, variant readings in classical texts, etc., Script: Copied by one hand in careful Humanistica Textualis., and Space for headings was provided at the head of each Satire, but the headings were not executed. Satt. 2-16 open with a 3-line (6-line Satt. 6 and 7) plain initial (Capitalis) in blue. On f. 1r (Sat. 1) 6-line white vinestem initial integrated in a three-margins left border in the same style and colours; in the lower section of the latter, between two birds, there is a damaged coat of arms in a wreath. Guide letters.