Bibliotheca Historica

Description

Title: Bibliotheca Historica
Creator: Diodorus, Siculus
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1475]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I (parts 1 and 2)-II, in an unidentified and freely adapted Italian translation (e.g., the opening portion of Book II is greatly abbreviated).
Description: In Italian.
Script: Written in an elegant, upright mercantesca script by a single scribe, below top line.
Spaces for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled. Initial on f. 1r later addition.
Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps nailed in channels on the outside of wooden boards. Yellow edges. Pink, green and cream endbands sewn on five cores. Covered in dark red goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a central ornament in a panel bordered with rope interlace in concentric frames. Two fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board and the upper board cut in for the clasp straps. Rebacked twice.
Provenance: Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 129 : 213 x 141 (151 x 84) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Genre: Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Egypt
Subject (Name): Diodorus, Siculus.
Subject (Topic): History, Ancient
Literature, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Diodorus, Siculus
History, Ancient
Literature, Medieval > Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Egypt > History > To 640 A.D.
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.