Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
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Description
- Title
- Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
- Creator
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1420]
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise round gothic bookhand.
Illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1420. Fine historiated initial (12-line) on f. 1r, the author seated at a lectern, pink, purple, green, red, and blue foliage on a gold ground, edged in black, with delicate white highlights; an exuberant vine and foliage border in three margins; the upper margin with a bar, gold and blue, with white highlights. Eight illuminated initials (9- or 8-line) on ff. 14v, 29v, 45r, 61r, 79r, 98v, 115r, 132r in the same style, borders in outer margin. Fine penwork initials throughout, blue with red penwork or vice versa (7- to 4-line). Several lines following initials written in ornate majuscules widely spaced on every other line, filled in with sepia penwork (some left unfinished, especially near end of manuscript). 2-line initials, blue with red or red with blue penwork, less ornate than above. Rubrics missing for major text divisions; paragraph marks in red or blue.
Borders cut out on ff. 1r, 45r, and 79r, replaced with parchment, with initials and borders partially restored.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Mottled calf case, gold-tooled. - Provenance
- Acquired by David Wagstaff; presented to Yale in 1943 by Mrs. David Wagstaff.
- Extent
- ff. i + 149 + i : 283 x 223 (170 x 112) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 147
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven.
Rome - Subject (Name)
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic)
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Didactic literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
History - Subjects
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Valerius Maximus
Didactic literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rome > History > Tiberius, 14-37.
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Valerius Maximus, Dictorum Factorum Memorabilium ad Tiberium Cesarem. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 9797825
- Object ID (OID)
- 10269804
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