De vita Caesarum (DS9977) (Q43935)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18622094, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862209, mssHM 45717)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | De vita Caesarum (DS9977) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18622094, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862209, mssHM 45717) |
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Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122
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Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
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Sion College. Library
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Emperors--Rome--Biography--Early works to 1800
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Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
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between 1185 and 1199
12. century
1185Gregorian
1199Gregorian
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Extent: ff. 118 : parchment ; 150 x 217 mm
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Suetonius' De vita Caesarum written at Bury St. Edmunds at the end of the twelfth century.
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Span folios: ff. 1-118v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-148 158(-7, 8 excised). Catchwords in lower right corner, many of them cropped. 2 columns of 30 lines, ruled in brown lead, with top and bottom 2 or 3 lines often full across; single bounding lines; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins. Written above the top line by two hands in an English minuscule script: i, ff. 1-16v; ii, ff. 17-117v.
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Decoration: Opening initial on f. 1, somewhat damaged, 9-line, in red infilled with blue and green arabesque tendrils; the other 11 initials, 10- to 4-line, in similar style in green, blue or metallic red, either plain or with arabesque infilling in other colors (e.g. ff. 17, 40v, 56, 69); 1-line initials in ink of text placed outside of ruled space.
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Rubrics added for the beginnings of books in an uneven hand of the end of the thirteenth century; occasional marginalia of the same date. On f. ii verso (which may be one of the 2 missing leaves of quire 15, transferred to the front of the book, as it shows no sign of the damage of f. 1, nor of the chainmarks), and on f. 118v faint notes in lead, late 13th/early 14th century, mentioning...
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Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
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Not manuscript no. xxvii in the mid-twelfth century catalogue of the Bury St. Edmunds abbey: "Epistole senece et sidonius, suetonius [erased]," ed. M. R. James, On the Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Octavo Pub. 28 (Cambridge 1895) 24. Probably to be identified with the entry for Suetonius in the "Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiae" of Henry of Kirkestede (See Ker, MLGB...
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22 July 2024
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22 July 2024
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