University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 856

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DS ID:

DS1696

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 856

Title:

De vita xii Caesarum ... etc. /

Author:

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122

Suetonius WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

[between 1450 and 1499]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and Italian

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 63 leaves : paper ; 219 x 147 (157 x 80) mm bound to 224 x 149 mm

Note:

Decoration: Red used for intermittent paragraph symbols in the Suetonius.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Modern boards, half morocco. Spine title: "Suetonio, Ausonio, Cronica di Benvenuto da Imola."
Title and author for manuscript from caption heading, for predominant work (f. 1r).
Incipit (1st work): Liber primus Divus Iulius Caesar incipit: Corneliam Cinnae quater consulis duxit in uxorem ex qua illi mox Iulia nata.
Explicit (1st work): Est bene non potuit dicere: dixit erit. Caii Suetonii Tranquilli De vita xii Caesarum liber duodecimus Domitianus Imperator Augustus feliciter finis.
Incipit (2nd work): Primus regalem patefecit Iulius aulam / Caesar ...
Explicit (2nd work): Sera gravem perimunt: sed iusta pericula fratrem.
Incipit (3rd work): Nerva senex satis nobilis honestus et modestus ...
Explicit (3rd work): Finit feliciter libellus qui dicitur augustalis continens sub compendio brevem descriptionem omnium Augustorum a primo Caesare usque ad ultimum, ad illustrem Nicolaum Marchionem Estensem. Kalendis Ianuarii intrante nono anno MCCCLXXXV. Benvenutus de Ymola ad illustrem Nicolaum Marchionem.
Incipit (4th work): Qui se comensa lo secundo libro delli Machabei. Morto Simone quinto figliolo de Mathatia sacerdote ...
Explicit (4th work): ... allo lordano oltre dui tribi e meza.
Foliation: ii (modern paper) + 63 + iii (modern paper); [1-63]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 31 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Ms. codex.
Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1955.
Sold at auction at Karl & Faber, 22 Nov. 1954, lot 22.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian

Biographies

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

excerpts

Poems

biographies (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Latin

Latin poetry

Rome (Empire)

Emperors

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9931780203503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3rr1pn12/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania