Manuscript leaves, on parchment, in a single hand, from a text of Terence's Comedies
Description:
In Latin., Attributed to the Florentine scribe "Messer Marco" (Giovanni d'Astore?)., Layout: single columns of 30 lines., Script: humanist script., and Decoration: initials in blue ink.
Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of classical Orations, Lives, and Exempla, followed by Excerpts from Valerius Maximus, Excerpts from Xenophon (translated into Latin by Francesco Filelfo), Seneca's Tragedies, Comedies by Terence and Plautus, and other miscellaneous works
Description:
In Latin., Unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include hat, ladder, crossed arrows, cross bow., Script: Written by two scribes: Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-152v) wrote in a careful humanistic script for text and modified capitals for headings; Scribe 2 (ff. 153r-167v) retained the overall format but used a less elegant style of writing., and Binding: Eighteenth century. Plain sheepskin case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Biography, Classical literature, Latin drama (Comedy), Exempla, Manuscripts, Medieval, Speeches, addresses, etc, and Latin drama (Tragedy)
Manuscript on paper of 1) Life of Terence. 2) Terence, Andria. 3) Terence, Eunuchus. 4) Terence, Heautontimoroumenos. Artt. 5-24: Cicero, Epistolae. 25) Commentary, partly in Italian, on the first letter of Cicero to Lentulus Spinther (some loss due to trimming).
Description:
In Latin., Unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include horn, mermaid in a circle; two distinct birds in circles similar to Briquet Oiseau 12203 and 12220., Script: Written by multiple scribes in various styles of round humanistic and gothic scripts. One hand supplied most of the glosses on Terence and Cicero and the texts on ff. 143r-145v in italic., Crude initials mark beginning of each section; rubrics throughout; many letters stroked in red., and Binding: Seventeenth century. Limp vellum case with title lettered in ink down the spine.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Terence.
Subject (Topic):
Latin drama (Comedy), Latin letters, and Manuscripts, Medieval
