Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem
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Description
- Title
- Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem
- Creator
- Valerius Maximus
- Published / Created
- [between 1400 and 1410]
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium ad Tiberium cesarem
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script. Marginal and interlinear notes in several contemporary and later hands.
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.
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. - Provenance
- Presented to Yale in 1953 by Thomas G. Bergin.
- Extent
- ff. 126 + i : 286 x 210 (167 x 132) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 221
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven.
Rome - Subject (Name)
- Valerius Maximus.
- Subject (Topic)
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Didactic literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
History - Subjects
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Valerius Maximus
Didactic literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rome > History > Tiberius, 14-37.
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- 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
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