- Creator:
- Livy
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 1
- Image Count:
- 685
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Livy, Ab urbe condita libri I-X.
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in round humanistic script., On f. 1r: the initial F historiated with a view of Rome, full-page illuminated border in gold and colors into which are introduced the Trivulzio arms of Milan (paly of 6, or and vert) and a set of unidentified arms (gules, a cross saltire sable). Initials of books, 8-line, of painted gold on background of blue, green and red, and partial floral border., Initial on f. 2r damaged by crease., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Brown leather, gold-tooled, edges marbled and gilt, rebacked, with T. LIVII DECAS PRIMA on spine.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Rome
- Subject (Name):
- Livy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and History
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Ab urbe condita libri I-X.
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- Creator:
- Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 358
- Image Count:
- 348
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Unidentified preface. 2) Sallust, Bellum Catilinae. 3) Unidentified scholia on Sallust, Bellum Catilinae. Although the commentary of Beinecke MS 358 belongs to the medieval school tradition rather than to the Renaissance tradition, neither the text of this article or of art. 5 below resembles closely any medieval texts currently known. 4) Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum. 5) Unidentified scholia on Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written in batarde, with scholia in a smaller version of the same hand., One miniature, 12-line, f. 74v, a T-O mappa mundi, in a red and gold frame, slightly waterstained at the edges. One 4-line initial, f. 3r (pink), and one 3-line initial, f. 57r (blue), both with white highlights, filled with red and blue ivy on gold against a gold ground. Twenty 2-line initials, gold, filled with pink and blue against pink and/or blue grounds, square or irregular, with white filigree. Capitals stroked in yellow, red or blue between ff. 1r and 26v; in yellow for the remainder of the text. Borders were perhaps added later (between 1425 and 1450) on folios with initials only; between ff. 1r and 57r, flowering vines, gold, green and blue with gold dots in lines above, below or in written space; blue and gold acanthus mixed with flowering vines, red, pink, blue, and green with gold ivy in line above written space and in inner margin within rulings for scholia; on a few folios, outer vertical bounding line reinforced in red with small acanthus terminals. Between ff. 57v and 162v pink, blue and/or green acanthus, with flowering vines, pink, blue and green, with gold ivy and dots, disposed as above; on f. 85v vertical bounding line repainted as a green stem with lopped off stalks. Lemmata underlined in red., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case with title in ink. Rodent damage.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C. and Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
- Subject (Topic):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C., Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, with scholia
- Creator:
- Gellius, Aulus
- Published / Created:
- [between 1400 and 1430, 1450 and 1500]
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 83
- Image Count:
- 212
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae (abridged).
- Description:
- Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on three tawed skin, kermes pink slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of the wooden boards. Yellow edges. The plain wound endbands may have been resewn. The spine is lined with cloth. Covered in brown, originally tan, sheepskin with corner tongues. Blind-tooled with two rope interlace stars in a central panel bordered with concentric frames. Spine: bands outlined with double fillets; panels diapered with triple fillets. Two truncated diamond fastenings, the catches on the lower board (one wanting), the upper board cut in for straps attached with star-headed nails., Folio 1r with partial border in inner and lower margin (rubbed). Inner margin has scrolling vine, yellow, on parchment ground with red dots, with stylized foliage, flowers and fruit in green, red, purple and dove grey. Illuminated initial, 3-line, purple on dark green ground, is incorporated into border. In lower margin, wreathed medallion (unidentified mutilated arms: per pale, or and sable?) on pink ground, supported by two heraldic dragons, parchment colored (unfinished) against red ground. All of this decoration appears to be a later addition. Plain initials and headings in red., and Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, below top line.
- Subject (Name):
- Gellius, Aulus
- Subject (Topic):
- Commonplace-books, 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 > Noctes Atticae