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Title

Literary miscellany

Authors

• Virgil
• Sallust, 86-34 B.C
• Martial
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Martin, of Braga, Saint, approximately 515-579 or 580
• Claudianus, Claudius
• Secundus, of Athens, 2nd cent

Call number

Ms. Codex 1262
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944109083503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263936991
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4410908

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with some Greek

Origin

Date

ca. 1471

Place

Italy

Summary

A collection of Latin poetry and prose, consisting of mostly classical sources, but also containing some medieval works. Contains some marginal and interlinear notes and corrections in various near-contemporary hands. Many smaller initials are slashed with red. Many of the sections end with the Greek word telos. Contains some short marginal poems in red in a different hand, along with some commentary arranged in geometric patterns in the margins.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

172 leaves : 185 x 150 (130-145 x 100) mm. bound to 195 x 150 mm

Foliation

Paper, 172 leaves; [1-172]: modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Leather, possibly 17th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Layout

Written in about 20-25 long lines.

Decoration

Red initials, some decorated with faces, capitals stroked in red.

Script

Written in a variety of humanistic cursive hands, in part by Gibertus (f. 25r).

Provenance

• Sold by Bernard M. Rosenthal, cat. 22 (1971), no. 56.
   

Subjects topical

• Epigrams, Latin
• Pastoral poetry, Latin
• Didactic poetry, Latin
• Proserpina (Roman deity)
• Old age--Early works to 1800
• Cardinal virtues--Early works to 1800
• Cynics (Greek philosophy)

Genres

• Codices
• Anthologies
• Commentaries
• Annotations
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Anthology
• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Annotated
• Commentary
• Literature -- Poetry
• Philosophy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Bucolica, f. 1r
• fol. 22r — Moreti, f. 22r
• fol. 26r — Georgica, f. 26r
• fol. 82r — De coniuratione Catilinae, f. 82r
• fol. 111r — Epigrammata and Liber Speculatorum, f. 111r
• fol. 121r — Commentary on Martial, f. 121r
• fol. 127r — Raptus Proserpinae, f. 127r
• fol. 151r — Cato maior de senectute, f. 151r
• fol. 160r — Somnium Scipionis, f. 160r
• fol. 164r — Formula vita honestae, f. 164r
• fol. 166r — Fragmentary text, f. 166r
• fol. 171r — Fragmentary commentary on Secundus, f. 171r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Manicule, f. 3r
• fol. 4r — Manicule, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Manicule, f. 4v
• fol. 8v — Decorated catchword, f. 8v
• fol. 10r — Manicule, f. 10r
• fol. 11r — Manicule, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Manicule, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Manicule, f. 12r
• fol. 16v — Decorated catchword, f. 16v
• fol. 18r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, Face, f. 18r
• fol. 26r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, Face, f. 26r
• fol. 32r — Manicule, f. 32r
• fol. 33v — Decorated catchword, f. 33v
• fol. 41v — Decorated catchword, f. 41v
• fol. 49v — Decorated catchword, f. 49v
• fol. 58r — Manicule, f. 58r
• fol. 66r — Manicule, f. 66r
• fol. 67r — Decorated initial, Initial P, Face, f. 67r
• fol. 84v — Manicule, f. 84v
• fol. 111r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 111r
• fol. 127r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 127r
• fol. 134r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 134r
• fol. 155r — Manicule, f. 155r
• fol. 156r — Manicule, f. 156r
• fol. 157r — Manicule, f. 157r
• fol. 157v — Manicule, f. 157v