Basilici tyranni umbra, etc

Description

Title: Basilici tyranni umbra, etc
Published / Created: [between 1600 and 1700]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (unidentified armorial watermarks) of Basilici tyranni umbra, a Latin tragedy with a list of characters drawn partly from Byzantine history, including Umbra Basilici tyranni (d. 497), Zeno Imperator, Longinus eius frater, Gazeus Rhetor, Euphemianus, Castor tribunus militum, and various pupilli and ephebi. With a collection of poems in Horatian meters on early Jesuits, e. g., St. Francis Xavier (1506-52), Brother Rudolph Acquaviva (1550-83), St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), St. Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-91), and Edmund Campion (d. 1581). Includes other miscellaneous texts
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by several cursive hands, some clearly later additions. A few headings in square capitals.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Vellum case, blind-tooled. Bookblock almost detached. Front pastedown may be part of art. 2 of text, but is too badly mutilated to be certain.
Provenance: Purchased from Goldschmidt's by Sterling W. Childs for the Albert H. Childs Memorial Collection in 1932.
Extent: ff. 90 : 172 x 108 (ca. 160 x 85) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance England 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Byzantine Empire
Subject (Name): Jesuits
Subject (Topic): History
Jesuit poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Latin drama (Tragedy)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Jesuits > History
Jesuit poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Latin drama (Tragedy)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Byzantine Empire > History
England > 17th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Basilici Tyranni Umbra, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.