In Latin., Script: copied in Humanistica Textualis Libraria, probably by two hands: A (ff. 1r-6v), who writes an even and small script, and B (ff. 7r-54v), whose script is larger and more rapid., Decoration: almost completely missing. There is ample space for headings above each Satire and space for 2- or 3-line initials at the opening of the Satires., and Binding: early quarter, bevelled wooden boards and leather spine. Two leather clasps attached to the front board with two lily-shaped brass catches on the rear board.
Manuscript on parchment (shiny) of Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI. Many lacunae in text, but missing passages often added in by 15th-century hands
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written by a single scribe in a small bookhand; interlinear glosses and scholia by same scribe in a cramped and abbreviated script, ff. 2 and 4 in two sizes of humanistic bookhand., Red initial, 4-line, infilled with modest arabesque motifs; spaces left for other initials at beginning of each satire; rubrication for scholia on ff. 2. Simple drawing of racecourse in circus appears on f. 9r., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries (?). Brick-red goatskin, blind-tooled.
