Manuscript on parchment of Persius, Satirae 1.22-6. With argumenta added in the 15th century.
Description:
Binding: 20th-21st centuries, not digitized. Plain brown leather over cardboard. Yellowish paper endleaves., Paragraph marks in red. All the majuscules, those at the opening of the verses and the others, are heightened with dark yellow. The Satires open with a 2-line flourished initial (a 3-line flourished initial for Satire 6) with marginal extensions, alternately in red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork., and Script: Copied by one hand writing Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria, with a preference for round r and d with relatively short shaft.
Subject (Name):
Persius
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, Scholia, and Verse satire, Latin
All headings are missing (one line is blank between the various satires). Red stroking of the majuscules on f. 1r only. 2-line red plain initials at the beginning of the satires, with guide letters. The Prologue opens with a 5-line plain initial with some decoration., Binding: Unbound., Mss. 897 and 898 are parts of the same manuscript., Script: Copied by one hand writing Gothico-Humanistica with single-compartment a. The majuscules, at the beginning of each verse, are Gothic., and Watermark: a Circle surmounted by a Cross. Parchment stays at the outer and at the inner sides of the quires, made from scraps of various manuscripts.
Subject (Name):
Persius
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library, and Satire, Latin
BEIN Zi +5785: Capital spaces. Rubricated throughout. Bound with: Calderino, D. Commentarii in Juvenalem. [Venice? not after 1477]. Lucanus, M.S. 1477. Pharsalia. [Venice, 1477]. For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Fol. 1 and 71b blank; of fol. 72, probably also blank, only a stub remains. Numerous manuscript marginal and interlinear notes. Stained in lower corners of leaves., BEIN Zi +5785: Bound in original sheepskin over wooden boards, with brass clasps and corner and center pieces; one corner pieces is missing from the back cover. In modern cloth case., BEIN Zi +5785: Manuscript note inside front cover: Iste liber est mei hieronimi de feltkirchen artiu[m] medicineq[ue] doctoris quem mecu[m] ex papia ad Nurembergem traduxi anno 1477. According to Mr. Marston's note, laid in in front, this is Hieronymus Monetarius (Münzer), collaborator with Schedel on the Nuremburg chronicle. According to the same note, this copy was later in the library of Prince Dietrichstein. Book-plate of Thomas Ewart Marston., and Capital spaces. Rubricated throughout.
Publisher:
Antonius Zarotus,
Subject (Name):
Dietrichstein, Moritz,--Graf von,--1775-1864--Ownership, Marston, Thomas E.--Bookplate, Münzer, Hieronymus,--d. 1508--Ms. notes, and Persius
