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De vita xii C[a]esar[um] ... [etc.] / Caii Suetonii Tranquilli.

Author/Creator:
Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.
Publication:
[Italy], [between 1450 and 1499]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
63 leaves : paper ; 219 x 147 (157 x 80) mm bound to 224 x 149 mm
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Subjects:
Emperors -- Rome -- Biography.
Latin poetry.
Rome -- History -- Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
Rome -- History -- Flavians, 69-96.
Form/Genre:
biographies (literary works)
codices (bound manuscripts)
excerpts.
Poetry.
Manuscripts, Italian -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Biographies.
Language:
Latin and Italian.
Summary:
A fairly lengthy set of excerpts from Suetonius, followed by parts of Ausonius' poem about the Caesars and excerpts from Benvenutus' Liber Augustalis, along with an Italian text summarizing Jewish history from the death of Simon Maccabeus in 135 BCE to the death of Herod Agrippa I in 44 CE, erroneously identified in its rubric as part of the second book of Maccabees.
Contents:
1. f.1r-42r: De vita xii Caesarum [excerpts] / Caii Suetonii Tranquilli.
2. f.42r-42v: Versus de xii Caesaribus / Ausonii.
3. f.42v-56v: Liber Augustalis [excerpts].
4. f.56v-63v: Lo secundo libro delli Machabei.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title and author for manuscript from caption heading, for predominant work (f. 1r).
Incipit (1st work): Liber primus Divus Iulius Caesar incipit: Corneliam Cinnae quater consulis duxit in uxorem ex qua illi mox Iulia nata.
Explicit (1st work): Est bene non potuit dicere: dixit erit. Caii Suetonii Tranquilli De vita xii Caesarum liber duodecimus Domitianus Imperator Augustus feliciter finis.
Incipit (2nd work): Primus regalem patefecit Iulius aulam / Caesar ...
Explicit (2nd work): Sera gravem perimunt: sed iusta pericula fratrem.
Incipit (3rd work): Nerva senex satis nobilis honestus et modestus ...
Explicit (3rd work): Finit feliciter libellus qui dicitur augustalis continens sub compendio brevem descriptionem omnium Augustorum a primo Caesare usque ad ultimum, ad illustrem Nicolaum Marchionem Estensem. Kalendis Ianuarii intrante nono anno MCCCLXXXV. Benvenutus de Ymola ad illustrem Nicolaum Marchionem.
Incipit (4th work): Qui se comensa lo secundo libro delli Machabei. Morto Simone quinto figliolo de Mathatia sacerdote ...
Explicit (4th work): ... allo lordano oltre dui tribi e meza.
Collation: ii (modern paper) + 63 + iii (modern paper); 1-5¹² 6⁴⁻¹; [1-63], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 31 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in humanist cursive or italic script, mostly by a single hand, with additions by another hand.
Decoration: Red used for intermittent paragraph symbols in the Suetonius.
Binding: Modern boards, half morocco. Spine title: "Suetonio, Ausonio, Cronica di Benvenuto da Imola."
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Penn Provenance:
Sold at auction at Karl & Faber, 22 Nov. 1954, lot 22.
Sold by Emil Offenbacher (New York), 1955.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 17 (Ms. Latin 81).
Publications about:
Thomas M. Izbicki and Stephanie Jefferis Tibbetts. "Excerpts from Suetonius's De vita Caesarum in University of Pennsylvania Libraries MS Codex 856." In Manuscripta 66.2 (2022), p. 211-237.
Cited as:
Suetonius, De vita xii Caesarum (Ms. Codex 856). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
Contains:
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus.
Benvenutus, de Imola, -1387 or 1388.
Versus de xii Caesaribus.
Liber Augustalis.
OCLC:
155918873
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