Research Catalog

Title

Ab urbe condita.

Author

Livy.

Publication

Florence, Italy, approximately 1480.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mariano, del Buono di Jacopo, 1433-1504
• Marzi, Gianfrancesco, active 15th century
• Bradel, Alexis-Pierre
• New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 27.

Description

224 leaves, bound : parchment , ink, manuscript, illuminations; 359 x 244 mm

Alternative Title

• Titi Livii Patavini De Secundo Bello Punico Liber Primus Incipit
• History of Rome, Third Decade

Subject

• Livy
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Italy
• Illumination of books and manuscripts
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > New York (State) > New York
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C

Genre/Form

• Manuscripts – Italy – 15th century.
• vellum (parchment)
• Early works.
• illuminated manuscripts.
• Morocco bindings (Binding) – France – 19th century.

Note

• Contains Third Decade, or Books 21-30, De secundo bello punico
• Manuscript is misfoliated at end with two leaves labelled f. 221. Thus although the foliation goes to 223, the number of leaves is 224. Correct foliation is used here, because of the ease of counting to the end after the error.
• Layout: Written in 36 long lines per page, ruled in light brown ink, catchwords visible.
• Decoration: Portrait of author on f. 1; putti and animal figures in border design. Opening folio has elaborate border design in white vinestem, large initial, and rubrics. Throughout, 9 gold initials on fields of white vinestem, blue, green and pink. 1-line initials in same ink as text.
• Collation: one quaternion (ff. 151-8), one ternion (ff. 219-24), and the remaining 21 gatherings are quinternions.
• Scribe: Gianfrancesco Marzi
• Script: Humanistic; rustic capitals.
• Artist: Mariano del Buono.
• Produced ca. 1470-80. The fore edge painting may have been executed in Hungary.

Access (note)

• Restricted use.

Indexed In (note)

• The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005)
• Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Seymour de Ricci. (Wilson Co., New York, 1937)

Cite As (note)

• NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 27

Language (note)

• In Latin.

Provenance (note)

• Written for Mathias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458-90), with his arms on the first page. Chrètien-François de Lamoignon (1735-89) with his stamp in fol. 2r; his sale (1791). Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 3010.

Binding (note)

• Bound in black morocco with gold tooling by Bradel l'Ainé, early 19th century. Gilt edges with painted fore-edges with painted foliage, perhaps executed for Matthias Corvinus in Hungary.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. MS. 27

OCLC

1338042206

Author

Livy.

Title

Ab urbe condita.

Imprint

Florence, Italy, approximately 1480.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Access

Restricted use. Requires permission for access.

Indexed In:

The Splendor of the Word. (ed.) J. G. Alexander, J. H. Marrow, L. F. Sandler (NYPL / Harvey Miller, 2005), n. 82.

Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. Seymour de Ricci. (Wilson Co., New York, 1937), p. 1340, no. 27.

Cite As:

NYPL. Spencer Collection MS. 27

Language

In Latin.

Provenance

Written for Mathias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458-90), with his arms on the first page. Chrètien-François de Lamoignon (1735-89) with his stamp in fol. 2r; his sale (1791). Sir Thomas Phillipps, MS 3010.

Binding

Bound in black morocco with gold tooling by Bradel l'Ainé, early 19th century. Gilt edges with painted fore-edges with painted foliage, perhaps executed for Matthias Corvinus in Hungary.

Source of description

Part of the description used is from Digital Scriptorium 1.0.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

Italy Florence

Added Author

Mariano, del Buono di Jacopo, 1433-1504, illuminator.

Marzi, Gianfrancesco, active 15th century, scribe.

Bradel, Alexis-Pierre, binder.

New York Public Libary. Manuscript. Spencer Coll. MS 27.

Other Title

Titi Livii Patavini De Secundo Bello Punico Liber Primus Incipit

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. MS. 27