Juvenal

Description

Title: Juvenal
Creator: Juvenal
Published / Created: [between 1490 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (c. 60-c.140), Satirae 6-16. With a survey of the sixteen Satires of Juvenal, with their incipits and subjects
Description: In Latin.
Script: rapidly copied by one hand in a linear and sloping Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria/Currens close to Cursiva.
2-line plain inset initials (Capitalis) alternately red and blue, with guide letters. Between two successive Satires 1 line is left blank. In the lower margin of p. 9 there is a clumsy drawing in pale ink of a rabbit (?); an unidentified drawing (part of a dress?) is seen in the lower margin of p. 38 and part of the same in the lower margin of p. 99 (with offset on p. 98).
Binding: 19th century, England. White parchment over cardboard, the covers gold-tooled with a double frame of fillets and a small circular stamp in the corners; the spine entirely gold-tooled with various designs; at its top a red leather label with the gold-tooled title “IVVENALIS / MS.”; at the bottom a small label in the same material and colour with the gold-tooled inscription “SÆC. / XV.” Dark red marbled endleaves. Gilt edges.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. ii + 50 + ii : 205 x 150 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: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Juvenal.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Satire, Latin
Subjects: Juvenal
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Satire, Latin
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Juvenal. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.