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.
Subject (Name):
Juvenal
Subject (Topic):
Classical education, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Satire, Latin
Doni, Anton Francesco, 1513-1574 Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D
Published / Created:
1549
Call Number:
1992 60
Image Count:
729
Alternative Title:
Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. Italian
Description:
Imperfect: some of text on p. 255 failed to be printed due to fold in paper., Includes subject index (p. [11]-[16] (1st count))., Italian translation of: Epistulae morales ad Lucilium., Pages [22]-[24] at end blank., Printer statement from colophon; place and date from title page. Full colophon reads: In Vinegia MDXLVIII. Per Aurelio Pincio., and Signatures: *⁸ A-2X⁸; foliation errors in front matter.
Grantham, Henry, fl. 1571-1587 Lentulo, Scipione, 1525 or 6-1599, creator
Published / Created:
1587
Call Number:
Lxh5 587Lb
Image Count:
87
Description:
Another issue. 16 cm. With imprint: Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier for William Norton, 1587. and Imperfect: p. 151-154 wanting and supplied in positive photostat.
Publisher:
by Thomas Vautrollier dwelling in the Blackefriers
Complete version of the earliest German translation of the Legenda aurea., Teil I: Sommerteil, and Teil II: Winterteil
Description:
2 volumes bound together with discreet foliation., On paper, and Teil II wanting ff. 4, 292.
Subject (Name):
Oelrichs, Johann Carl Conrad, 1722-1798, provenance
Subject (Topic):
Christian saints --Biography --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Calendar --Early works to 1800, Christian saints --Legends --Early works to 1800, Church calendar --Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, German--Germany, and Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany