Illumination from a French version of Livy's Ab urbe condita (fragment).

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Title: Illumination from a French version of Livy's Ab urbe condita (fragment).
Published / Created: circa 1460-1469.
Publication Place: Northern France or Flanders
Abstract: Manuscript fragment, on parchment, containing an illustration of the execution of the general Vitruvius, as described in Book 8, chapter 20 of Livy's Ab urbe condita (History of Rome). The verso contains 18 incomplete lines of text in French
Description: In Middle French.
Tipped onto a cardboard mount. Bookseller description pasted to the reverse of the mount.
Script: bâtarde script.
Decoration: the miniature is full-color with shading in gold, edged with a narrow burnished gold frame.
Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Stephen John Keynes on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2019.
Extent: 1 item (2 pages) : 104 x 77 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: French, Middle (ca. 1300-1600)

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Flanders 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Livy.
Subject (Topic): Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Livy
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Flanders > 15th century
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Keynes, Stephen John > Ownership

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Citation: Illumination from a French Version of Livy's Ab urbe condita (Fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.