[Valerij maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem liber primus incipit. j. de religione]

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Description

Title
[Valerij maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem liber primus incipit. j. de religione]
Creator
Valerius Maximus
Contributor
Valerius Maximus
Published / Created
s. XV^^in [ca. 1400-1425]
Publication Place
Italy
Abstract

Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem.

Description
Binding: 15th-16th centuries. Resewn on four tawed, slit straps laced through the edge of wooden boards and nailed in channels which are filled in with plaster. There is a piece of leather at the exit from one tunnel and what may be the tips of nails just inside the channel so earlier supports may have been of leather, nailed twice. The endbands, sewn on twisted leather cores laid in grooves, were tied down through a leather spine lining, the embroidery with three beads. The edges are gilt with a design scratched on them, the spine square. Covered in dark brown goatskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with a star in a circle with wide rope interlace panels above and below, inside concentric outer borders. Small diamonds and dots on the spine. Four brass catches on the lower board and stubs of velvet straps nailed to the upper. One joint cracked and repaired and one endband added.
On f. 3r, a good historiated initial, 7-line: the author in armor, holding his book; thick, curling foliage forms, pink, orange, blue, and green, on an irregular gold ground, edged in black. Nine illuminated initials (ff. 16r, 29v, 43r, 57r, 72r, 85v, 98r, 111v, and 126r) to open Books 2-10, composed of foliage, as above, and striated color strips, in vibrant blue, orange, crimson, mauve, green, and occasionally yellow, highlighted in white and variations of the same basic hues. 4-, 2-line initials, blue with red penwork or vice versa. Book numbers at top of page, red and blue; rubrics throughout. Remains of guides for rubricator.
Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
Extent
1 vol.
30 cm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been partially digitized.
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Beinecke MS 221

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
text
Genre
Annotations
Hand coloring
Inhabited initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic)
Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37
Subject (Name)
Valerius Maximus
Subject (Topic)
Didactic literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 221.
Valerius Maximus, Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium ad Tiberium Cesarem. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9795492
Object ID (OID)
2052968
More Information
https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms221.htm

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