Harvard University, MS Typ 322

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS11129

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 322

Title:

Satirae

Author:

Juvenal

Juvenal WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Sigismondi, Sigismondo de'

Sigismondo de' Sigismondi WIKIDATA

Artist:

Del Fora, Monte

Monte di Giovanni del Fora WIKIDATA

Del Fora, Gherardo

Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1495

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 109 leaves, bound : vellum ; 13 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Frescobaldi family

Frescobaldi WIKIDATA

Marston, Thomas E.

Thomas E. Marston WIKIDATA

Note:

Written possibly by Sigismondo de Sigismondi, in a small upright humanistic hand in brownish ink, 18 lines per page the initial letters of each line separated into the margin.
The initial leaf of each satire has a miniature in the lower margin and a border, and the first letter of the text in gold. On f. 1v is a miniature of the poet reading his work, and on f. 2r a historiated initial showing the poet. This page-opening has a border with medallions and an unidentified coat of arms. The style of illumination is like that of Monte and Gherardo del Fora. (See...
Bound in old velvet over boards, edges gilt and gauffered.
In a cloth folder within a slipcase, 13 cm.
Thomas E. Marston (bookplate; his sale, London, Sotheby's 11 Dec. 1961, lot 192).
Deposited by Philip Hofer, 1967; bequeathed, 1984.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097579030203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794254

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794260

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:53794272

Holding Institution:

Harvard University