Corpus Caesarianum
- Creator:
- Caesar, Julius
- Published/Created:
- Northern Italy,
[ca. 1450] - Physical Description:
- ff. i + 167 + i : paper ; 315 x 225 mm.
- Materials:
- paper
- Notes:
- Script: Copied by one scribe writing a small Gothico-Humanistica with features close to Gothica Semitextualis Libraria.
Pale red headings in Humanistica Textualis, sometimes missing, especially towards the end of the codex. Running headlines in the same colour and by the same hand, “L” in the middle of the verso page, the number in the middle and the title at right on the recto page. Gothic initials at the head of the subdivisions of the text as sketched above (including f. 69r): (1) foliate initials in Lombard style in red and green, filled with blue heightened with white penwork, on a square gold background, up to f. 51r; the opening one (f. 1r) is 9 lines high and has penwork extensions ending in leaves in the left and upper margin (the latter interfering with the heading); the others are 4-5 lines high and have similar sprays in the left margin only; (2) Starting f. 68v (art. 2) blue flourished initials (4-6 lines) with red penwork, the latter extending in the margin.
Binding: ca. 1700 (repaired in 1993 by P. Dusel). Brown sprinkled calf over cardboard, gold-tooled: the covers decorated with a double fillet frame, the spine, with seven raised bands, richly decorated. In the second compartment a red title label with gold-tooled inscription “CESARIS / COMMENT/ARII .Ms.” Red edges.
Collection of Bernard M. Rosenthal, Berkeley (MS 174). Purchased from Rosenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund. - Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of C. Iulius Caesar (100-44 B.C.), De bello Gallico; De bello civili; De bello Alexandrino; De bello Africo; De bello Hispaniensi.
- Topics:
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Topics:
- Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C
- Topics:
- Caesar, Julius
- Language:
- Latin
- Genre:
- Decorated initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia - Format:
- Text
- 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 802
- Orbis Record:
- 9869381
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- General Collection, BRBL, Yale University
- oid pointer:
- 10962313
- Citation:
- Corpus Caesarianum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- Extent of digitization:
- Complete work digitized.
- OID:
- 10958723
- PID:
- digcoll:3928138
