Horace — 1454; Italian, Siena(?)
MS. Add. B. 54
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Description
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Title
Horace — 1454; Italian, Siena(?)
Shelfmark
MS. Add. B. 54
Place of origin
Italian, Siena(?)
Date
1454
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
ii + 98 fols.
Hands
Humanistic script.
Decoration
Fine borders, initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 264, pl. XXIV)
Coloured initials, gold headings.
Fol. 2r: initial M: gold initial with white-stem decoration on multicoloured ground.
Fol. 2r: border, upper, right and lower margins: white-stem decoration on multicoloured ground. In lower margin two winged putti support the coat of arms of Bellanti of Siena.
Acquisition
Purchased.
Provenance
Celso Cittadini, 1553–1627: 'Emi ego Celsus Cittadinus a Fabio Paulinio librorum ueterum uenditore die xx Januarij 1603 iulios duodec.', fol. 95.
Guglielmo Libri, no. 500 in his sale, 1859.
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Title
Poems of Horace
Shelfmark
MS. Add. B. 54
Summary
Poems of Horace:
(fol. 2) The Odes of Horace, in four books, see fols. 24, 38, 63.
(fol. 77) The Carmen Seculare.
(fol. 79) The Epodes, after which is a short Life of Horace, beg. 'Horatius Q. Flaccus libertino præcone patre natus.' At end 'Librum hunc Laurentius Petrini filius et Bellanteæ domus suis manibus scripsit anno m° ccccliiij.'.
On fol. 2 are the arms, Gules a bar or, in chief a demi-lion rampant argent depressed by a label of four points of the last.
Date
written in A.D. 1454 in Italy by Laurentius Petrini
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, with one large illuminated capital and border, and some smaller capitals, etc.
Physical extent
98 Leaves
Custodial history
'Emi ego Celsus Cittadinius a Fabio Paulinio librorum ueterum uenditore die xx January 1603 iulios duodec' A 17th cent. note states that Celsus Cittadinius was of Siena.
Catalogue of the ... collection of Splendid Manuscripts ... formed by M. Guglielmo Libri 1859 no. 500*
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