Manuscript on paper of 1) Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI (with XVI preceding XV). With the argumenta of Guarino of Verona added at the beginning of each satire. 2) Persius, Prologue followed by Satirae I-VI. 3) Notes on the moon in the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Description:
Argumenta of Guarino of Verona in red rustic capitals preceding each title; spaces for decorative initials never filled., Binding: Sixteenth century (?). Vellum stays. Original sewing on three slit, tawed straps. Primary, plain and secondary, beaded endbands on twisted, tawed cores, laid in grooves and pegged or nailed. Spine lined with tawed skin, mostly lacking. Straps laced and pegged or nailed into beech boards covered in (originally) brick-red leather, blind-tooled with an inscription in a border around an inner panel of overlapping circles interspersed with dots. Four flower-shaped bosses on each board and two catches on the lower one. Two bosses and clasp straps wanting., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Lettre R.8941 and Harlfinger Fleche 12., and Written in humanistic script by three scribes. The principal scribe, Franciscus Seroddi Centinomius Phylaretus, wrote ff. 1r-72v and 79r-84v; he signed the manuscript on ff. 72v and 84v. Scribe 2 wrote ff. 74r-78v and Scribe 3 the notes on ff. 85r-87v. Marginal and interlinear glosses in several contemporary hands.
Subject (Name):
Juvenal
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Satire, Latin, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper of 1) Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI. 2) Unidentified commentary on the sixteen satires of Juvenal. This extensive commentary, written in the same hand as the text, draws upon some of the earlier scholia as well as works of later scholars. 3) Miscellaneous passages on the nature of tragedy, satire, comedy, plus a short life of Juvenal
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14874., Script: Written by a single scribe in a well spaced informal batarde for the main text and in a very small cramped batarde for surrounding notes., Crude illuminated initial, 9-line, on f. 1r; red initials, 3-line, at beginning of remaining satires. First letter of each verse stroked in red (ff. 13r-61r); some lines underlined in red., and Binding: Twentieth century. Cloth boards.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Juvenal.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Satire, Latin, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment (shiny) of Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI. Many lacunae in text, but missing passages often added in by 15th-century hands
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a small bookhand; interlinear glosses and scholia by same scribe in a cramped and abbreviated script, ff. 2 and 4 in two sizes of humanistic bookhand., Red initial, 4-line, infilled with modest arabesque motifs; spaces left for other initials at beginning of each satire; rubrication for scholia on ff. 2. Simple drawing of racecourse in circus appears on f. 9r., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries (?). Brick-red goatskin, blind-tooled.