Satires

Description

Title: Satires
Creator: Juvenal
Published / Created: 21 February 1460
Publication Place: Northern Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of Juvenal's Satires
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied in Humanistica Textualis Libraria, probably by two hands: A (ff. 1r-6v), who writes an even and small script, and B (ff. 7r-54v), whose script is larger and more rapid.
Decoration: almost completely missing. There is ample space for headings above each Satire and space for 2- or 3-line initials at the opening of the Satires.
Binding: early quarter, bevelled wooden boards and leather spine. Two leather clasps attached to the front board with two lily-shaped brass catches on the rear board.
Provenance: Purchased from the collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 1 + 68 + 1 : 285 x 195 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.
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, Satires. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.