Satires of Juvenal and Persius (DS9851) (Q43557)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620826, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862082, mssHM 50)
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Satires of Juvenal and Persius (DS9851)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18620826, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862082, mssHM 50)

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    Satires of Juvenal and Persius
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    Illuminations (paintings)--Italy--15th century
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    Decorated initials--Italy--15th century
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    between 1485 and 1499
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    Extent: ff. iii + 84 + ii : parchment ; 178 x 324 mm
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Support: Parchment.
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    Script: Humanistic.
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    Layout: 1-810 94. One catchword survives, f. 60v, written horizontally in the inner corner; 28 lines of verse, ruled in dry point, with double bounding lines.
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    Decoration: Full page miniature, f. 70v, of the 9 Muses holding blank scrolls and standing in front of a fountain; in the background, Pegasus with his hoof breaking the ground of Mount Helicon to bring forth the spring Hippocrene; an angel hovering to the right.
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    Other Decoration: Opening leaf for Juvenal, crude full border composed of bands and medallions of white vine stem (some of it traced over in a darker ink) and woven strapwork, inhabited by putti and animals, and outlined in gold; in the lower margin, a coat of arms within a laurel wreath (see below); apparently by the same person who painted the border in Oxford, Bod. Lib., MS Lyell 83 (see de...
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    For other manuscripts copied by the same scribe, see Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts...of Major J. R. Abbey, 28, pp. 77-78.
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    Assigned Date: s. XVex.
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/4/2012.
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    The first owner, "Bernardinus" (his name on f. 69v), may possibly be identified with Bernardinus Carafa, bishop of Chieti from 1501 until his death in 1505. The coat of arms on f. 1, however, is azure a sheaf of wheat or, suggested to be that of the Formento family of Verona (Rietstap , vol. 2, pl. 345). L. S. Olschki, Bull. 2 (Venice 1892) to Robert Hoe: Bierstadt (1895) p. 16 with a plate of...
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    22 July 2024
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