De Vita Imperatorum; Lives of the Caesars; Familie nobiles Romanorum, Familie eorundem plebeie; List of noble families of Rome (DS570) (Q2672)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University Bloomington (Ricketts 225, Ricketts 225, https://archive.org/details/Ricketts225_40)
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| English | De Vita Imperatorum; Lives of the Caesars; Familie nobiles Romanorum, Familie eorundem plebeie; List of noble families of Rome (DS570) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Indiana University Bloomington (Ricketts 225, Ricketts 225, https://archive.org/details/Ricketts225_40) |
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28 June 2023
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Familie nobiles Romanorum, Familie eorundem plebeie
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Perhaps Michel d’Ailly, sixth duc de Chaulnes (1714-1769, but not identifiable in his sale catalogue, Paris, 19 March 1770 and following days); probably George Watson Taylor (1771-1841), M. P. and owner of plantations in Jamaica, whose sale, Evans, 20 March 1823, included as lot 463, a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of Caesar and Suetonius, on vellum;
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Thomas Thorpe, cat. II (1823), no. 5745, and cat. III (1824), no. 16518;
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Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), bought from Thorpe, his MS 2665; his sale, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1896, lot 1182 (it was at one time in the library of the Duc de Chaulnes), unsold, re-offered 5 June 1899, lot 1107; Alfred Higgins, F.S.A. (d. 1903; bought in May 1903: he died in October), with his signature and booklabel;
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his sale, Sotheby’s, 2 May 1904, lot 228; Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921); his sale, Sotheby’s, 3 April 1922, lot 878, to Quaritch; C. L. Ricketts, bought in 1923; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
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s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475
15. century
1450Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Binding: Bound in blind-stamped brown morocco, c. 1900, by Leighton, gilt edges; in a green cloth case.
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Figurative details, ff. 74: Bas-de-page white-vine panel on fol. 1r enclosing a coat-of-arms within a wreath.
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Other decoration, ff. 74: Written in brown ink in a small upright humanistic minuscule, Greek words originally left blank and supplied in a less formal hand in red; eight large 4- to 5-line white-vine illuminated initials, with partial marginal extensions.
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Number of scribes, ff. 74: Two.
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Script, ff. 74: Humanistic minuscule.
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Layout, ff. 74: Collation: i#^6# [perhaps of 10, for i??“iv], ii??“vi#^10#, vii10 [misbound, the correct sequence of the leaves being 57??“58 and 61??“68], viii#^8# [of 10, ix??“x canceled (probably blank), misbound, the correct sequence of the leaves being 59??“60 and 69??“74], with vertical catchwords in red ink readable from the left; ruled faintly in brown, probably in ink, 32 lines...
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Manuscript note: The forth part of a divided copy of Caesasr's Commentariiand Suetonius's Lives of the nine caesars from Caligula to Domitian. See deHamel 2010 for details.
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Bibliography: Schenkl 1892, p. 51; De Ricci 1935, p. 652; Ermatinger 1991, passim.
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ff. 74: Names of the emperors added in a later hand, probably seventeenth-century.
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ff. 74: Latin.
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ff. 1r-74r: Colophon: Detur pro penna scriptori pulcra puella.
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Incipit, ff. 1r-74r: principium, finit, feliciter, Amen.
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Explicit, ff. 1r-74r: Germanicus c. Cesaris pater Drusi.
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Incipit, f. 74r-v: Portii.
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Explicit, f. 74r-v: Hostilii.
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8 January 2025
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