Epigrams

Description

Title: Epigrams
Creator: Martial
Contributor: Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478.
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of Martial, Epigrams. The codex was misbound; the epigrams are out of order. Excerpts from the critical commentary of Domizio Calderini (Professor of Rhetoric at Rome in 1470) surround the text on ff. 1r-24v and 165r-193r. With an unidentified prose text outlining the development of civilization
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by one scribe in a neat italic for the text and a less formal hand for the commentary and for the unidentified text on ff. 193r-194v.
Gold initials, 5-line, on blue, dark red and green grounds, with white and gold highlights, mark the beginning of each book. Small, plain initials, alternating red and blue, for each epigram. Commentary and titles, in various shades of red.
Final folios creased and rubbed; some loss of marginal text due to trimming and wear.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Vellum case, blind-tooled.
Provenance: Presented to Yale in 1936 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 194 + i : 162 x 100 (114 x 62) 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): Martial.
Subject (Topic): Epigrams, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia
Verse satire, Latin
Subjects: Martial
Epigrams, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
Verse satire, Latin
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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