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Title

Joannis Passeratii Coniecturarum et opinionum liber

Authors

• Passerat, Jean, 1534-1602
• Lucilius, Gaius, ca. 180-ca. 102 B.C
• Naevius, Gnaeus, ca. 270-ca. 200 B.C

Other related names

• Monmerqué, L.-J.-N 1780-1860, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1068
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942174443503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175291635
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4217444

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with quotations in Greek

Origin

Date

between 1572 and 1599

Place

Paris

Summary

Contains three drafts (two partial) of Coniecturarum et opinionum liber, a commentary on Propertius, Tibullus, and Plautus, later printed as Coniecturarum liber in Paris in 1612, as well as fragments of Lucilius and Naevius with interlinear commentaries.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption heading of the predominant work.
   

Watermark

Briquet Colonne 4433 (1564), Briquet Chien 3639 (1563), Briquet Lettre. B 8079 (1580).

Extent

182 leaves : 328 x 225 mm. bound to 333 x 235 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 182 + i; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Each work except the second has separate contemporary pagination: work 1, p.1-41 is f.1-21, p.42-74 is f.25-41, p.74-79 is f.41v-44, p.80-118 is f.49-68, p.119-157 is f.71-90; work 3, p.1-20 is f.106-115v; work 4, p.1-130 is f.118-182v.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Work 2 has 45-65 lines per page, work 3 has 45-55 lines per page, work 4 has 23-27 lines per page, all with bounding lines in lead.

Decoration

Engraved print portrait of Jean Passerat, probably dating from 1598, pasted into this codex (f. i verso).

Script

Written in a semi-Gothic cursive (works 1-3) and humanistic cursive (work 4) script, possibly by Jean Passerat.

Provenance

• Possibly sold in the collection of L.-J.-N. Monmerqué by L. Potier (Paris), 12 May 1851, lot 2818 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts).
   
• Sold by Paul Jammes (Paris), 1962.
   

Subjects topical

• Elegiac poetry, Latin
• Satire, Latin--Criticism, Textual

Genres

• Codices
• Commentaries
• Engravings
• Satires (document genre)
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Commentary
• Illustration
• Literature -- Poetry
• Paper
• France
• French

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 98r — Coniecturarum liber I, f. 98r