- Creator:
- Servius, 4th cent
Virgil - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 834
- Image Count:
- 236
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Donatus (4th century), Vita Vergilii. 2) Note on the three kinds of poetry, after the Venerable Bede, De arte metrica. 3) Ps.-Octavianus Augustus, Poem in praise of Virgil's Aeneis. 4) Ps.-Ovidius, Tetrasticha in cunctis libris Vergilii. 5) Poem in praise of Virgil. 6) Servius grammaticus, Commentum in Vergilii Bucolica, preface. 7) Poem. 8) Servius grammaticus, Commentum in Vergilii Bucolica. 9) Servius grammaticus, Commentum in Vergilii Georgica.
- Description:
- Binding: 17th-18th centuries. White parchment over pasteboard, the covers gold-tooled (but the gold almost entirely lost) with frames of fillets, four lozenge-shaped floral stamps in the corners and a large lozenge-shaped floral stamp in the center. The spine, with five raised bands, gold-tooled, with a red leather title label in the second compartment with the gold-tooled inscription: "SERVIUS / IN / VIRGILI / M.SS." Sprinkled edges., No headings. Unevenly spread alternately red and blue paragraph marks. 3- or 4-line plain initials in red or blue, with guide letters; art. 9 opens with a 7-line plain initial in red. On f. 1r art. 1 opens with a 7-line Gothic foliate initial in blue and red, with green tendrils, on a rectangular background. The page is decorated with a golden staff in inner, upper and outer margins, around which a green tendril carrying red and blue leaves and gold vine leaves is wound. In the lower margin a wild man in a lion's skin (Hercules?) is painted standing between two rocky hills and carrying two coats of arms., and Script: Copied by one hand in Gothico-Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria with numerous abbreviations. Incipits are written in a large and more calligraphic version of the same script.
- Subject (Name):
- Servius,--4th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin poetry, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Commentary on Virgil's Bucolics and Georgics
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- Creator:
- Servius, active 4th century
- Published / Created:
- [between 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 142
- Image Count:
- 45
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of Servius, De centum metris. With Brief notes on accents followed by Latin word list with Italian equivalents.
- Description:
- Binding: Nineteenth century. Vellum stays outside the quires. Paste-paper case in shades of deep purple., Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features., and Watermarks: unidentified quadruped in gutter.
- Subject (Name):
- Servius,--4th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > De centum metris, etc.
- Published / Created:
- [ca.1450]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 737
- Image Count:
- 10
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Servius Honoratus (390-400), De finalibus. 2) Life of Boethius (c. 485-524). 3) Aelius Donatus (350), Ars grammatica, 1.5.
- Description:
- Leaves are in succession and constitute the central part of a quire, f. 1 being now a singleton and ff. 2-5 a binio., Lower section of the leaves is damaged by mould, badly impairing the legibility, and parts of them are lost., and Script: Copied by two hands, both writing a rapid Humanistica Cursiva. Hand A copied art. 1, Hand B artt. 2-3.
- Subject (Name):
- Servius,--4th cent
- Subject (Topic):
- Christian hagiography, Latin language--Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Grammatical texts in Latin; Vita Boetii