Satirae

Description

Title: Satirae
Creator: Juvenal
Contributor: Persius.
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI. 2) Persius, Prologue followed by Satirae I-VI.
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14873.
Script: Written in humanistic script by a single scribe.
Six illuminated initials in blue or green, 6- to 5-line on gold rectangular grounds (ff. 1r, 20r, 32v, 45v, 59r, 76r); smaller initials, in blue, for the remaining satires.
Binding: Sixteenth century (?). Vellum stays and vellum reinforcement of own end leaves. Resewn on three slit straps bound in wooden boards covered in brown leather, blind-tooled, with two catches on the upper board. Too heavily restored to tell much about the binding.
Provenance: Purchased by Thomas E. Marston who gave it to Yale in 1936.
Extent: ff. iv + 90 : 215 x 127 (150 x 80) 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): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Satire, Latin
Subjects: Juvenal
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Satire, Latin
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Juvenal and Persius, Satirae. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.