Saturnalia

Description

Title: Saturnalia
Creator: Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1475]
Publication Place: Central Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (thick) of Macrobius, Saturnalia
Description: In Latin with passages in Greek.
Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified mountain; a dragon perhaps similar in design to those produced in Ferrara in 1440s-50s, cf. Piccard Drache II.538-72.
Script: Copied in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line.
Headings and some plain initials in red.
Ink has corroded through many leaves; minor loss of text.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same style as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181, 182 for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi), with the first three probably by the same binder. Written in ink on tail edge: "MACROB". Two front parchment endleaves, presumably reused from the early binding given the patterns of rust stains and wormholes, consist of undated ecclesiastical records from the diocese of Cesena.
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + ii + 110 + i : 295 x 216 (210 x 125) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Marston MS 212
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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): Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius.
Subject (Topic): Dialogues, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius
Dialogues, Latin
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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