Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem

Creator:

Valerius Maximus

Published/Created:

Italy,
[ca. 1420]

Physical Description:

ff. i + 149 + i : parchment ; 283 x 223 (170 x 112) mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms147.htm

Notes:

Script: Written by a single scribe in a precise round gothic bookhand.
Illuminated by Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1420. Fine historiated initial (12-line) on f. 1r, the author seated at a lectern, pink, purple, green, red, and blue foliage on a gold ground, edged in black, with delicate white highlights; an exuberant vine and foliage border in three margins; the upper margin with a bar, gold and blue, with white highlights. Eight illuminated initials (9- or 8-line) on ff. 14v, 29v, 45r, 61r, 79r, 98v, 115r, 132r in the same style, borders in outer margin. Fine penwork initials throughout, blue with red penwork or vice versa (7- to 4-line). Several lines following initials written in ornate majuscules widely spaced on every other line, filled in with sepia penwork (some left unfinished, especially near end of manuscript). 2-line initials, blue with red or red with blue penwork, less ornate than above. Rubrics missing for major text divisions; paragraph marks in red or blue.
Borders cut out on ff. 1r, 45r, and 79r, replaced with parchment, with initials and borders partially restored.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Mottled calf case, gold-tooled.

Abstract:

Manuscript on parchment of Valerius Maximus, Dictorum factorum memorabilium ad tiberium cesarem.

Topics:

Didactic literature, Latin
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

Topics:

Rome--History--Tiberius, 14-37

Topics:

Valerius Maximus

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Manuscripts

Format:

Text

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Teaching resource: Barbara A. Shailor, Medieval Studies

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 147

Orbis Record:

9797825

Orbis Barcode:

39002091595349

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

1002692

Citation:

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 147.
Valerius Maximus, Dictorum Factorum Memorabilium ad Tiberium Cesarem. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Extent of digitization:

Partial work digitized.

OID:

10269804

PID:

digcoll:3757694