Historia Romana, etc

Description

Title: Historia Romana, etc
Creator: Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Contributor: Eutropius, active 4th century.
Patrizi, Francesco, 1413-1494.
Quintilian.
Published / Created: [between 1425 and 1450]
Publication Place: Northeastern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Eutropius, Breviarium, with the insertions and addition of the final six books by Paul the Deacon. 2) Francesco Patrizi of Siena (1412-94), Epistula Achilli Petrucio re regendo magistratu. 3) Extract from Quintilian, Institutio oratoria 2.9.1.
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks: two different unidentified ladders, the one on ff. 1-60, the other on ff. 61-70.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a sloping humanistic bookhand.
Spaces for decorative initials in art. 1 are unfilled; remains of guide letters. Headings and first word(s) in text divisions in epigraphic majuscules.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Yellow marbled paper case with title written in ink on narrow paper label on spine: "Liber Eutropii de Regibus Rom. et de Orig. Imperii".
Provenance: Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1957 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 70 + i : 286 x 214 (190 x 110) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Rome
Subject (Name): Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Subject (Topic): Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799?
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rome > History
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.