Manuscript fragment on parchment of Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio; original text by Cicero
Description:
Script: Copied by one hand in Carolina., Decoration: None; after the manuscript was dismounted, a large (15th century?) vine-scrolls design was made in red crayon over ff. 1r to 2v, the meaning of which remains unclear., and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. and Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Dreams, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper (thick) of Macrobius, Saturnalia
Description:
In Latin with passages in Greek., Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified mountain; a dragon perhaps similar in design to those produced in Ferrara in 1440s-50s, cf. Piccard Drache II.538-72., Script: Copied in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line., Headings and some plain initials in red., Ink has corroded through many leaves; minor loss of text., and Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled. Bound in the same style as MS 450 and Marston MSS 72, 86, 181, 182 for the Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi), with the first three probably by the same binder. Written in ink on tail edge: "MACROB". Two front parchment endleaves, presumably reused from the early binding given the patterns of rust stains and wormholes, consist of undated ecclesiastical records from the diocese of Cesena.
