The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 45717

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9977

Shelfmark:

mssHM 45717

Title:

De vita Caesarum

Author:

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122

Suetonius WIKIDATA

Place:

Bury St. Edmunds, England

Bury Saint Edmunds TGN

Date:

between 1185 and 1199

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 118 : parchment ; 150 x 217 mm

Former Owner(s):

Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds Abbey WIKIDATA

Sion College. Library

Sion College WIKIDATA

Note:

Suetonius' De vita Caesarum written at Bury St. Edmunds at the end of the twelfth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-118v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-148 158(-7, 8 excised). Catchwords in lower right corner, many of them cropped. 2 columns of 30 lines, ruled in brown lead, with top and bottom 2 or 3 lines often full across; single bounding lines; pricking visible in the 3 outer margins. Written above the top line by two hands in an English minuscule script: i, ff. 1-16v; ii, ff. 17-117v.
Decoration: Opening initial on f. 1, somewhat damaged, 9-line, in red infilled with blue and green arabesque tendrils; the other 11 initials, 10- to 4-line, in similar style in green, blue or metallic red, either plain or with arabesque infilling in other colors (e.g. ff. 17, 40v, 56, 69); 1-line initials in ink of text placed outside of ruled space.
Rubrics added for the beginnings of books in an uneven hand of the end of the thirteenth century; occasional marginalia of the same date. On f. ii verso (which may be one of the 2 missing leaves of quire 15, transferred to the front of the book, as it shows no sign of the damage of f. 1, nor of the chainmarks), and on f. 118v faint notes in lead, late 13th/early 14th century, mentioning...
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/23/2012.
Not manuscript no. xxvii in the mid-twelfth century catalogue of the Bury St. Edmunds abbey: "Epistole senece et sidonius, suetonius [erased]," ed. M. R. James, On the Abbey of St. Edmund at Bury. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Octavo Pub. 28 (Cambridge 1895) 24. Probably to be identified with the entry for Suetonius in the "Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiae" of Henry of Kirkestede (See Ker, MLGB...

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Emperors

Rome (Empire)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862209

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:51784/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens