Cristoforo Majorana (Style of), artist Angelus, scribe Juvenal. Works Persius. Works Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner Bierstadt, Edward Hale, 1857-1896, former owner Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscript. HM 50
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ff. 1-69v. [Juvenal]. [Satires]. Incipit: Semper ego auditor tantum nunquam ne reponam. Explicit: Ut Leti phaleris omnes et torquibus omnes. Finis Laus Deo. Bernardinus excribi fecit amicis ęque ac sibi. Latin. W. V. Clausen, ed., A. Persi Flacci et D. Iuni Iuvenalis Saturae (Oxford 1959), the satires of Juvenal on pp. 35-175; Greek omitted after"Sollicitent," Book 9.37. Each satire, except the third, proceded by the argumentum of Guarinus Veronensis; S. Endlicher, ed., Catalogus codicum philologicorum latinorum Bibliothecae Palatinae Vindobonensis (Vienna 1836) 116. f.70 blank; ff. 70v-83; ff. 83v-84 blank. [Persius]. [Satires]. Incipit: Nec fonte Labra prolui caballino...De perversis exercitationibus poetarum, O curas hominum o quantum in rebus inane. Explicit: Inventus Crisippe tui finitor acervi. Angelus scripsit. Latin. Clausen, the satires of Persius on pp. 1-28. Listed as n. 444 in P. Scarcia-Piacentini,"Saggio di un censimento dei manoscritti contenenti il testo di Persio e gli scoli e i commenti al testo," Studi su Persio e la scoliastica persiana 3.1. Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature straniere, Università di Pisa (Rome 1973). Title supplied by cataloger. Support: Parchment. Script: Humanistic. Layout: 1-8¹⁰ 9⁴. One catchword survives, f. 60v, written horizontally in the inner corner; 28 lines of verse, ruled in dry point, with double bounding lines. Decoration: Full page miniature, f. 70v, of the 9 Muses holding blank scrolls and standing in front of a fountain; in the background, Pegasus with his hoof breaking the ground of Mount Helicon to bring forth the spring Hippocrene; an angel hovering to the right. Other Decoration: Opening leaf for Juvenal, crude full border composed of bands and medallions of white vine stem (some of it traced over in a darker ink) and woven strapwork, inhabited by putti and animals, and outlined in gold; in the lower margin, a coat of arms within a laurel wreath (see below); apparently by the same person who painted the border in Oxford, Bod. Lib., MS Lyell 83 (see de la Mare, Lyell Cat. , 251-53 and Pächt and Alexander , vol. 2, n. 367, pl. 35 ). Opening initial for Juvenal, 4-line, in gold on a white-patterned blue ground outlined in red. Opening initial for Persius, f. 71, 2-line in gold on a ground of white vine stem with an extension in the margin. For other manuscripts copied by the same scribe, see Alexander and de la Mare, Italian Manuscripts...of Major J. R. Abbey, 28, pp. 77-78. Assigned Date: s. XVex. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 3/4/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound by Mercier in dark blue morocco with gilt varicolored leather onlays; vellum doublures with dentelle borders; gauffered gilt edges. HM 50. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
The first owner,"Bernardinus" (his name on f. 69v), may possibly be identified with Bernardinus Carafa, bishop of Chieti from 1501 until his death in 1505. The coat of arms on f. 1, however, is azure a sheaf of wheat or, suggested to be that of the Formento family of Verona (Rietstap , vol. 2, pl. 345). L. S. Olschki, Bull. 2 (Venice 1892) to Robert Hoe: Bierstadt (1895) p. 16 with a plate of f. 70v; Cat. (1909) pp. 124-25; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1911, pt. 1, n. 2147 to G. D. Smith; his Cat. 3 (1911) n. 20 to Henry E. Huntington in April 1912.
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