Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De vita XII Caesarum manuscript, ca. 1470? / C. Suetonii Tranquilli.

Authors

• Suetonius, ca. 69-approximately 122, author.

Other related names

• Drury, Henry, 1778-1841, former owner., former owner
• Allen, Henry Ellis, 1807 or 1808- former owner., former owner
• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.b.40
(Washington, DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=224767

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin; Modern Greek (1453-)

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Contains Suetonius' Lives of the Twelve Caesars, preceded by an epigram on Julius Caesar by fourth century Roman poet, Ausonius.

Notes

• In Latin with Latin and Greek marginalia.
   
• Manuscript on large imperial size paper.
   
• Uniform title: [De vita Caesarum]
   

Extent

Leaves ii + 107 + ii; 285 x 210 mm

Foliation

Foliation

Collation

1- 10 (10), 11 (8) (wants 8)

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in 18th century burnished calf with gold tooling; on spine in gold: Suetonius Tranquillu -- Codex Chartaceus; gilt edges.

Layout

Written in 33 long lines (dimensions of written space: 190 x 125 mm); above first line; machine-ruled, with horizontal lines in ink and vertical lines in lead.

Decoration

Decorated initial framed in gold (leaf 1r); Penwork initials for each chapter alternate in red and blue ink.

Script

Written in a very high quality western-style Greek hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Rev. Henry Drury; Henry Allen (Henrici Alani--bookplate); and W.T. Smedley; Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.16

Subjects topical

• Emperors --Rome --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Rome --History --Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Italy
• Ausonius, Decimus Magnus

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --Italy --15th century
• Epigrams --Italy --15th century --Manuscripts
• Annotations (Provenance) --Italy --15th century

Keywords

• History
• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Liber I, D[ivus] C[aius] Iulius Caes[ar] Imp[erator]
• fol. 16r — [Liber] II, D[ivus] Octavianus Augustus Caesar
• fol. 37r — [Liber] III, Tiberius Caesar
• fol. 51r — [Liber] IIII, C[aius] Calicula
• fol. 63r — [Liber] V, D[ivus] Claudius Caes[ar]
• fol. 73r — [Liber] VI, Nero Claudius Caes[ar]
• fol. 85r — [Liber] VII, Sergius Galba Imp[erator]
• fol. 89v — [Liber] VIII, Silvius Otho Imp[erator]
• fol. 92r — [Liber] VIIII, Vitelius A[ulus] Imp[erator]
• fol. 95v — [Liber] X, D[ivus] Vespasian[us] Imp[erator] Aug[ustus]
• fol. 100r — [Liber XI], D[ivus] Titus Imp[erator] Aug[ustus]
• fol. 102v — [Liber] XII Ultim[us]que, Domitianus Imp[erator]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Henry Allen
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial A