Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 225

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS570

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 225

Title:

De Vita Imperatorum

De vita imperatorum

Lives of the Caesars

Lives of the Caesars

Familie nobiles Romanorum, Familie eorundem plebeie List of noble families of Rome

List

Author:

Suetonius

Suetonius WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound in blind-stamped brown morocco, c. 1900, by Leighton, gilt edges; in a green cloth case.
Figurative details, ff. 74: Bas-de-page white-vine panel on fol. 1r enclosing a coat-of-arms within a wreath.
Other decoration, ff. 74: Written in brown ink in a small upright humanistic minuscule, Greek words originally left blank and supplied in a less formal hand in red; eight large 4- to 5-line white-vine illuminated initials, with partial marginal extensions.
Number of scribes, ff. 74: Two.
Script, ff. 74: Humanistic minuscule.
Layout, ff. 74: Collation: i#^6# [perhaps of 10, for i??“iv], ii??“vi#^10#, vii10 [misbound, the correct sequence of the leaves being 57??“58 and 61??“68], viii#^8# [of 10, ix??“x canceled (probably blank), misbound, the correct sequence of the leaves being 59??“60 and 69??“74], with vertical catchwords in red ink readable from the left; ruled faintly in brown, probably in ink, 32 lines...

Former Owner(s):

Perhaps Michel d’Ailly, sixth duc de Chaulnes (1714-1769, but not identifiable in his sale catalogue, Paris, 19 March 1770 and following days); probably George Watson Taylor (1771-1841), M. P. and owner of plantations in Jamaica, whose sale, Evans, 20 March 1823, included as lot 463, a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of Caesar and Suetonius, on vellum;

Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly WIKIDATA

George Watson-Taylor WIKIDATA

Thomas Thorpe, cat. II (1823), no. 5745, and cat. III (1824), no. 16518;

Thomas Thorpe WIKIDATA

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), bought from Thorpe, his MS 2665; his sale, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1896, lot 1182 (it was at one time in the library of the Duc de Chaulnes), unsold, re-offered 5 June 1899, lot 1107; Alfred Higgins, F.S.A. (d. 1903; bought in May 1903: he died in October), with his signature and booklabel;

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Alfred Higgins WIKIDATA

his sale, Sotheby’s, 2 May 1904, lot 228; Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921); his sale, Sotheby’s, 3 April 1922, lot 878, to Quaritch; C. L. Ricketts, bought in 1923; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Michael Tomkinson WIKIDATA

Bernard Quaritch Ltd WIKIDATA

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript note: The forth part of a divided copy of Caesasr's Commentariiand Suetonius's Lives of the nine caesars from Caligula to Domitian. See deHamel 2010 for details.
Bibliography: Schenkl 1892, p. 51; De Ricci 1935, p. 652; Ermatinger 1991, passim.
ff. 74: Names of the emperors added in a later hand, probably seventeenth-century.
ff. 74: Latin.
ff. 1r-74r: Colophon: Detur pro penna scriptori pulcra puella.
Incipit, ff. 1r-74r: principium, finit, feliciter, Amen.
Explicit, ff. 1r-74r: Germanicus c. Cesaris pater Drusi.
Incipit, f. 74r-v: Portii.
Explicit, f. 74r-v: Hostilii.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ricketts225_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/images_Ricketts225_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington