Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50053072.html)

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 174

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Italy
France

Summary

This manuscript is a fragment containing Suetonius' "Lives of the Twelve Caesars," breaking off in the middle of the Life of Julius Caesar.

Notes

• Leaf from a Book of Hours (Hours of the Virgin, Compline) tipped in to back flyleaf; leaf from the same Book of Hours is tipped in to Lewis AL 025.8 B56 between folios 46-47
   
• A fragment, breaking off in the middle of the Life of Julius Ceasar; table of contents lists the other books of Suetonius's Lives, the last one beginning on fol. 131
   
• Hand that wrote the table of contents is different from that of the main text; same hand wrote the running titles that appear on each page; Greek inscription on folio 9v also in a different hand
   

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Foliation

Collation

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Binding

Layout

Script

Provenance

• D. T. P.; Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 2665); John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; "DTP" written in pencil on fol. 2r; "Phillips MS 2665" written in ink on fol. 1r and "Italian hand Lives of the Caesars Suetonius" also written in ink in Phillipps's hand on fol. 1r
   

Keywords

• Biography
• 16th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• French
• France
• Illumination
• Fragment

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Table of contents
• fol. 3r — De vita Julius Caesaris (The Life of Julius Caesar); incipit: Annum agens Caesar XVI patrem amisit sequentibusq[ue] co[n]s[ulibu]s flamen dialis destinatus dimissa Cossutia quae familia equestri sed ad modum dives praetextato desponsata fuerat Corneliam Cinnae IIII co[n]s[ulis] filiam duxit uxorem ex qua illi mox Iulia nata est neq[ue] ut repudiaret illiam compelli a dictatore Sulla ullo modo potuit.
• Insert recto — Leaf from a Book of Hours, Hours of the Virgin, Compline

Decorations

• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial, badly damaged