Cest le liure des fays des Romains conpille en[sem]ble de la [...]uste et de suetoyne et du lucain [...]
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Cest le liure des fays des Romains conpille en[sem]ble de la [...]uste et de suetoyne et du lucain [...]
Other titles: Faits des Romains; Faits et Geste de J. Cesar MS
Classmark: MS 2
Related people: Caesar, Julius
Publication city: [France]
Date(s): [1440-1460]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 1 v. (247 leaves) (2 columns, 39-42 lines; frame-ruled in pencil)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/396904
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
The outer columns of text on ff. 6-10 are lacking.
Columns are numbered with modern pencil throughout, 1-975.
Decoration: 6-line incipit initial 'A' in red and green, decorated with red pen-ornament which extends into a border decoration in red, blue and green. 3-line intials, alternating in red and blue with pen flourishes in the other colour, begin new sections throughout the manuscript. Title in red and rubrics throughout.
Written in cursiva.
Presented with the aid of funds subscribed by Mrs Nellie Emsley of Bradford, Dr W. Gough of Park Square, Leeds, and Colonel T. Walter Harding of Madingley Hall, Cambridge, in 1925.
Features
Bindings
18th-century leather binding with blind tooling. Spine, detached, gold tooled with flowers.
Provenance
17th-century ownership inscription on f. 14r "Ex bibliotheca minimorum Guichiensium". Early 19th-century inscription "CRS/Vol (?) lil (?)" inside the front cover. The manuscript was later obtained by Lord Ashburnham from the Paul Barrois collection, and was subsequently sold at Sotheby's, 10 June 1901, lot 278, when it was acquired by Leightons, the booksellers.
Access and usage
Access
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