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Satirae
Author:
Juvenal
Author:
Persius
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Paper and parchment (the outermost and innermost bifolia of each quire are parchment; watermarks partially visible, probably a knot and a half-griffin, with no match in Briquet), ii modern paper flyleaves + 108 fols. + ii modern paper flyleaves; 170 x 120 mm (115 x 70 mm), 21 long lines, ruled in plummet and brown crayon, vertical catchwords, leaf signatures.
BINDING: nineteenth century, blind-tooled tan leather over pasteboards.
CONTENTS: fols. 1r-92v Juvenal, Satirae, with contemporary glossing
fols. 93r-108v Persius, Satirae
ORNAMENTATION: One white vine-scroll initial [S, 4 ll.] with letter in gold on a square ground of blue, green and pink with three-dot highlighting, accompanied in the lower margin by a laurel roundel and ribbons housing a shield of arms (gules, two swords in saltire argent, in base a mountain sable, on a chief azure, three fleurs de lys or with a label of four points gules), and in the outer margin by a heraldic device, repeated, drawn in red ink, with coronet and initials OG, added in a later hand (fol.1r); gold initial [N, 3 ll.] on square blue ground with scrolling highlighting (fol. 93r); blue painted initials [2 ll.] for each new satire; heavily modelled five- or six-fingered maniculi (fols. 6v, 28v, 45r); proper names and bracketing in outer margins in pale red ink.
History note: Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), his MS 9180 (fol. ii verso); Frank McClean (1837-1904), purchased in June 1898 (pencil note, fol ii verso, ‘No. 929); his bequest, 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1904) by McClean, Frank
15th Century, Mid#
Production date:
circa
AD 1450
Support composed of paper parchment
Accession number: MS McClean 158
Primary reference Number: 176585
Project ID: 471
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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