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- Published / Created:
- [between 1600 and 1700]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 45
- Image Count:
- 185
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper (unidentified armorial watermarks) of Basilici tyranni umbra, a Latin tragedy with a list of characters drawn partly from Byzantine history, including Umbra Basilici tyranni (d. 497), Zeno Imperator, Longinus eius frater, Gazeus Rhetor, Euphemianus, Castor tribunus militum, and various pupilli and ephebi. With a collection of poems in Horatian meters on early Jesuits, e. g., St. Francis Xavier (1506-52), Brother Rudolph Acquaviva (1550-83), St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), St. Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-91), and Edmund Campion (d. 1581). Includes other miscellaneous texts
- Description:
- In Latin., Script: Written by several cursive hands, some clearly later additions. A few headings in square capitals., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Vellum case, blind-tooled. Bookblock almost detached. Front pastedown may be part of art. 2 of text, but is too badly mutilated to be certain.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Byzantine Empire
- Subject (Name):
- Jesuits
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Jesuit poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin drama (Tragedy), and Manuscripts, Medieval
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Basilici tyranni umbra, etc
