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Add MS 15600
- Record Id:
- 032-002087387
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087387
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000052.0x000317
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055972710.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 15600
- Title:
- Decimus Junius Juvenal, Satires with scholia
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains the Satires (Satires) by the Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenal (b. c. 50, d. after 127), together with marginal and interlinear glosses.
Contents:
ff. 1v-125r: Juvenal, Satires, with interlinear and marginal scholia, preceded by a biographical prologue beginning ‘Iunius Iuvenalis, libertini locupletis incertum filius’ (ff. 1r-1v).
[f. 125v is blank].
Decoration:
Two large initials with some penwork decoration in brown ink (ff. 57r, 118v). 1 small initial in red (f. 1v). Several small initials in brown ink. Highlighting in red (f. 1v). Capitals in brown ink.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087387
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002087387
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055972710.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 3rd or 4th quarter of the 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 140 mm (text space: 120 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. 125 ( + 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 3 at the end).
Script: Caroline minuscule.
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1972. A fragment of the old spine inscribed in gold with ‘JUVENALII SATIRAE M’ is pasted on the inside cover.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
An unknown 17th-century owner: his or her note on paper in a 17th-century hand pasted on a flyleaf f. [i] recto.
Charles Motteley (b. 1778, d. 1850), bibliophile and Paris bookseller: ? his mark of ownership on f. 1r; purchased from him by Thomas Rodd.
Thomas Rodd the Younger (b. 1796, d. 1849), London bookseller: bought from him by the British Museum with six other manuscripts for £112 on 8 November 1845.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years 1841-1845 (London: British Museum, 1850), p. 31.
Richard J. Tarrant, 'Juvenal' in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by Leighton D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 202.
A Companion to Persius and Juvenal, ed. by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood, Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), p. 141.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.