Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 95.5
Images provided by hosting institution via
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS18071
- Shelfmark:
- VAULT Case MS 95.5
- Title:
- Bucolic, Georgics, Aeneid] /
- Virgil
- Place:
- Rome?
- Date:
- between 1450 and 1499
- Language:
- In Latin
- Material:
- parchment, illuminations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 210 leaves : parchment, illuminations ; 230 x 150 (158 x 94) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, George Augustus William, Sir, 1751-1804
- Note:
- Manuscript codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Collation: Parchment (southern preparation), fol. 210 ; 1-2010 2112 ; vertical catchwords preceded and followed by a flourish ; leaves signed alphabetically "al," etc., occasionally visible.
Layout: Written in 31 long lines beginning on the 2nd ruled line; ruled horizontally in pen, vertically in pencil.
Script: Written in humanistic textualis formata; marginal corrections by a 2nd hand; incipits and initial letters of each verse in rustic capitals; heading for the Aeneid on fol. 51v written without word separation; fol. 51r-210v, gloss in humanistic cursiva media by at least 2 hands; fol. 52v-160r index notes in rustic capitals.
Decoration: fol. 1r: initial extended to form inner and upper bracket margin with a cluster of three gold radiating disks at each end. Gold initials decorated with white vine stem on grounds of blue, green, and red 6-8 lines high at the beginning of texts 1 and 2 and the beginning of each book of the Aeneid; fol. 52v-160r, nota signs and manicules in violet.
Origin: Written in Italy, probably in or near Rome, in the 2nd half of the 15th-century.
Former owner: Maffei family: Colored coat of arms of the Maffei of Volterra family at foot of fol. 1r (cf. V. Spreti. Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana. v. 4, p. 203); Inscription (barely legible under ultraviolet light), dating probably much later than the manuscript (17th- or 18th-century), on fol. 1r: De figli[liuoli] et ered[i]c di Messer Mario Maffei.
Former owner: Anthony Askew (cf. De Ricci, English Collectors, pages 52-52).
Armorial bookplate of Sir George Shuckburgh.
Sold at Sotheby's, March 7, 1785, lot no. 536; Sold at Christie's. May 4, 1962, lot no. 14.
Former shelfmark: "L45" on fol. 1r right margin, visible under ultraviolet light. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma997811688805867
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8Z9UZ2YI
- Holding Institution:
