Manuscript on parchment (monastic, furry) of Josephus, De bello Judaico, translated into Latin by Hegesippus
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in elegant French minuscule. Marginalia, including "Nota" marks, by several later hands., Good pen-drawn initial for Book 1 (f. 2v), 12-line, in brown, with vigorous foliage swirls, modelled with fine striations, against a bright, multicolored (green, blue, red, maroon) panelled ground; for the Prologue and Books 2-5 (ff. 2r, 37r, 52r, 67v, and 82v), 7- or 5-line initials, in red, blue, green, and light brown with delicate, stylized foliage (f. 2r: also with two stylized heads). On f. 77v, a marginal drawing in red ink of a man pointing to text with a note (13th century) in brown ink "Nota de iniquo Symone.". Rubrics throughout., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Edges gilt. Green goatskin gold-tooled, with a brick-red label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Josephus, Flavius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jews, History, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Josephus, De bello iudaico, translated into Latin by Rufinus
Alternative Title:
De bello Judaico
Description:
In Latin., Written in bold and elegant early gothic bookhand; some looped flourishes in upper margins contain red dots., Seven initials, 17- to 10-line, in red, filled with red swirling foliage on orange and green grounds, with touches of blue, against irregular grounds of blue and/or orange panels. 6- to 2-line initials, green and/or red with red or green foliate flourishes, set both outside and into text column; initials sometimes incorporate simple facial features. 1-line red initials for rubrics. Rubrics throughout; remains of notes to rubricator., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown goatskin, blind-tooled.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Josephus, Flavius.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jews, History, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Jackson, John Baptist, 1701-1780?, printmaker, artist, publisher
Published / Created:
[1742]
Call Number:
742.00.00.18++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Left plate of a triptych; a procession of people, left to right, with two pairs of men in the foreground, a bearded man to left, giving a coin to a woman who carries a child, another man standing behind him, under the arches of a large building, a woman on the right, looking eagerly ahead; mountains and a pyramidical obelisk in the background."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumque ...
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger based on title of original painting by Titian., Place of publication based on known location of J.B. Jackson., Six lines of Latin text in lower left corner of image: Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumq[ue] ..., and One of a series of twenty-four chiaroscuro woodcuts after seventeen paintings in Venice: Opera selectiora. For description of series, see British Museum online cat. registration number: 1918,0713.28.
