Details

Other Title:

Epigrammata quedam auditu jucunda de pigmeis vel nanis.

Subjects:

Epigrams, Latin.

Form/Genre:

Epigrams.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

In Latin.

Summary:

Five epigrams of Ammianus, Lucullus, Lucilius, and Ausonius, seemingly translated from the Greek by Luscinius, with the overall title Epigrammata quedam auditu jucunda de pigmeis vel nanis. Written on verso of printed broadside, on which is printed part of a German poem by Johann Setzer from ca. 1523-1532. The epigrams are about 4-5 lines each, and feature jokes about dwarves and pygmies.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement A (5). The Library Chronicle 37 (1971), p. 109 (Ms. Latin 256).

Contributor:

Ammianus Marcellinus.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus.
Lucullus, approximately 117 B.C.-approximately 56 B.C.
Lucilius, Gaius, approximately 180 B.C.-approximately 102 B.C.
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

234380910