- Creator:
- Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Rufus, Sextus - Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 742
- Image Count:
- 159
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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.
- Alternative Title:
- Paulus Diaconus, Festus
- 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)., and Watermark: crossbow (?).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Rome -- History
- Subject (Name):
- Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799? Historia Romana and Rufus, Sextus
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historia Romana; With Festus, Breviarium historiae Romanae
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