Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
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Description
- Title
- Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem
- Creator
- Valerius Maximus
- Contributor
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1420]
- Publication Place
- Italy,
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem.
- Description
-
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Mottled calf case, gold-tooled.
Borders cut out on ff. 1r, 45r, and 79r, replaced with parchment, with initials and borders partially restored.
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.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise round gothic bookhand. - Extent
- ff. i + 149 + i : parchment ; 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
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
- Manuscripts
- Resource Type
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Geographic)
- Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
- Subject (Name)
- Valerius Maximus
- Subject (Topic)
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Didactic literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
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
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Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 147.
Valerius Maximus, Dictorum Factorum Memorabilium ad Tiberium Cesarem. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9797825
- Object ID (OID)
- 10269804
- More Information
- https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms147.htm
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