Opera, with glosses
- Creator:
- Virgil., creator
- Published/Created:
- Italy
12-- - Physical Description:
- ff. ii + 83 + ii : parchment.
- Notes:
- Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 2) Bucolica. 3) Georgica. 4) Aeneis. With commentaries, pseudo-Virgilian tracts, and a miscellany of treatises, many anonymous. Quires I-IV are from the first half of the thirteenth century; the remaining ones and the decoration were added half a century later. The outer side of the quires is flesh side. Quires I-IV (ff. 1-31) appear to be palimpsest, with very irregular edges, sometimes repaired by sewing strips of parchment onto them, which are now lost. Two scribes: A copied ff. 1-31 (quires I-IV) in Southern Praegothica close to late Carolingian script; B copied the remaining quires, starting with the text of Book 5 of Aeneis, in more rapid early Southern Textualis/Semitextualis; his spelling is marked by italianisms. Corrections and glosses from various periods.
The headings in red are not executed; some added later in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Cancelleresca); instructions for the rubricator are seen ff. 70v-75r. Numerous paragraph marks alternately in red and blue, sometimes black. Plain and flourished initials of various sizes in red and blue (other colours are also used in quires I-IV). Seventeen painted initials decorated with gold balls except in quires I-IV. From f. 70v onwards there are guide-letters, but all initials and other decoration are missing. A rectangular space of the width of one column was reserved for a miniature on f. 1ra, which was not executed.
Binding: Seventeenth-century. White parchment over pasteboard. On the spine with five slightly raised bands red leather label with gold-tooled inscription VIRGI-/LIUS / M.S. (this title has been completed in black ink with P(ublius) , Eneidos etc. and membr); below the label the handwritten date saec. XIV. Marbled endpapers.
Cite as: Virgil, Opera, with Glosses. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. - Topics:
- Classical literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven - Topics:
- Virgil
- Language:
- Latin
- Genre:
- Decorated initials
Manuscripts, Medieval
Rubrics - Format:
- Mixed Material
- Content Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Public
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 700
- Orbis Record:
- 9650455
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- General Collection, BRBL, Yale University
- oid pointer:
- 10594254
- Extent of digitization:
- Complete work digitized.
- OID:
- 9998965
- PID:
- digcoll:3690323
