Manuscript on paper of Georgicorum, Aeneidos et Bucolicorum Vergilii vocabula, an alphabetical compilation of words used by Virgil (and other authors), with their explanations, based on the Virgil commentary by Servius (4th-5th centuries). With two Latin and two Italian proverbs, and an Italian poem (10 verses).
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Art. 3 copied by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria. The title on the first front flyleaf (art. 1) is by another hand writing a bold Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (the same hand wrote the beginning of the alphabet on the facing pastedown). Art. 2 is copied by an unexperienced hand in Humanistica Cursiva Currens, but the date and the first line are by another hand writing Humanistica Cursiva Libraria., In art. 3 the opening letter of each lemma is a pale red 1-line capital projecting into the left margin. Each new alphabetical section begins with a 2- or 3-line capital alternately in red and blue (with a guide letter in the left margin), placed within the text area and followed by a black capital. Between the sections a space of two or three lines is left free., and Binding: Original brown leather over wooden boards (worm-eaten), spine with three raised bands; both covers blind-tooled with a frame of strapwork; in its interior two horizontal rows of quadrangular stamps at the top and at the bottom (a rosette and a Pascal Lamb) and a lozenge-shaped central part of the same strapwork. Five pointed brass bosses on each cover (together eight of them are preserved) and remnants of two clasps attached to the front cover by means of two nails with engraved heads; the quadrangular brass catches on the rear cover are engraved with a Pascal Lamb.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Servius, active 4th century. and Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Glossaries, vocabularies, etc, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 2) Bucolica. 3) Georgica. 4) Aeneis. With commentaries, pseudo-Virgilian tracts, and a miscellany of treatises, many anonymous. Ff. 1-31 are from the first half of the thirteenth century; the rest of the manuscript and the decoration were added half a century later
Description:
In Latin., Script: Two scribes: A copied ff. 1-31 in Southern Praegothica close to late Carolingian script; B copied the rest, starting with the text of Book 5 of Aeneis, in more rapid early Southern Textualis/Semitextualis; his spelling is marked by italianisms., The headings in red are not executed; some added later in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Cancelleresca); instructions for the rubricator are seen ff. 70v-75r. Numerous paragraph marks alternately in red and blue, sometimes black. Plain and flourished initials of various sizes in red and blue (other colours are also used in quires I-IV). Seventeen painted initials decorated with gold balls. From f. 70v onwards there are guide-letters, but all initials and other decoration are missing. A rectangular space of the width of one column was reserved for a miniature on f. 1ra, which was not executed., Ff. 1-31 appear to be palimpsest, with very irregular edges, sometimes repaired by sewing strips of parchment onto them, which are now lost., and Binding: Seventeenth century. White parchment over pasteboard. On the spine with five slightly raised bands red leather label with gold-tooled inscription "VIRGI-/LIUS / M.S." (this title has been completed in black ink with "P(ublius)" , "Eneidos etc." and "membr"); below the label the handwritten date "saec. XIV". Marbled endpapers.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Classical literature, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Manuscript on paper, composed in two parts, of 1) Unidentified grammatical text. 2) Vita virgiliana. 3) Preface to Servius' In Vergilii Aeneidos libros Commentarius. 4) Leonicenus Omnibonus (ca. 1412-ca.1480), De arte metrica. 5) Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola de conditione Domini nostri Iesu Christi
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: Part I: similar to Briquet Oiseau 12128 and 12130. Part II: similar in general design to Harlfinger Balance 31., Script: Part I (ff. 1-30): Written by a single scribe in humanistic cursive, below top line. Part II (ff. 31-80): Arts. 2-4 in humanistic cursive, below top line; art. 5 in a more formal humanistic bookhand., Part I: Plain intials (1-line), headings, initial strokes, and marginalia in red. Part II: Arts. 2-4: plain initials, headings, and initial strokes in red., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Two pairs of tunnels in the edges of the boards, and the supports laced into one or the other of them to channels in the outside and nailed. Partly resewn. Boards sharply bevelled, with the fore-edge bevel broken off the upper board. Quarter vellum binding, a later addition. Title in ink on lower board, partially visible under ultra-violet light: "Vita Vergilii [another word illegible]/ Documenta". Later title in ink on spine: "Varia man. scr./ vetera" and what appears to be a monogram or shelf-mark with letters I, F, O, T, H in ink on vellum addition.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Virgil.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Latin language, Grammar, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Judith holding a sword by the cutting edge is posed to cut off the head of Holofernes. The print appears opposite the title page of the printed version of William Hogarth's Judith : An Oratorio, or, Sacred drama ... the musick composed by Mr. William de Fesch, late Chapel-Master of the Cathedral Church at Antwerp. London : Printed in the year MDCCXXXIII
Alternative Title:
Per vulnera servor moret tuâ vivens
Description:
Title and date from Paulson., Engraved caption title below image: Per vulnera servor moret tuâ vivens. Virg. Aeneid., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms, note in Steevens' hand in pencil above print: Judith. Another note next to print on right: See Mr Nichol's Book 3d edit. p. 419., and On page 55 in volume 1.
