Satirae I-XVI

Description

Title: Satirae I-XVI
Creator: Juvenal
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI. 2) Unidentified commentary on the sixteen satires of Juvenal. This extensive commentary, written in the same hand as the text, draws upon some of the earlier scholia as well as works of later scholars. 3) Miscellaneous passages on the nature of tragedy, satire, comedy, plus a short life of Juvenal
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14874.
Script: Written by a single scribe in a well spaced informal batarde for the main text and in a very small cramped batarde for surrounding notes.
Crude illuminated initial, 9-line, on f. 1r; red initials, 3-line, at beginning of remaining satires. First letter of each verse stroked in red (ff. 13r-61r); some lines underlined in red.
Binding: Twentieth century. Cloth boards.
Provenance: Gift of Thomas E. Marston in 1936.
Extent: ff. iii + 62 + iii : 315 x 211 (127 x 85) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 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
Scholia
Subjects: Juvenal
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Satire, Latin
Scholia
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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