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f. 1. [Epitath of Lucan]. Incipit: Corduba me genuit rapiunt nero prelia dixi. Explicit: Que tractim serpant plus michi coma placent. Latin. Epitaph of Lucan; Walther, Initia 3329. ff. 2-72v. [Lucan] Pharsalia. Incipit: Bella per hemathios plusquam civilia campos. Explicit: Deformem pallore d[ucem voltusque prementem]//. Latin. C. Hosius, ed., M. Annaei Lucani Belli Civilis Libri decem (Leipzig 1913) 1-229, through Book 8.56. Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Gothic. Span folios: ff. 1-72v. Other Decoration: Parted red and blue initials, 12- to 8-line, with crude flourishing in ink of text and in red, on ff. 1, 11, 21v, 31v, 42, 52v, 62, 72; 2-line red initial for Epitaph on f. 1; 1-line initials slashed in red up to f. 14. Running headlines alternating red and black numbers up to f. 14, thereafter supplied, s. XVII. Sketch of a head, f. 9. A few marginal notes. Final leaves damaged by damp. Assigned Date: s. XIV1. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012. 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 in brown morocco by Macdonald; gilt edges. HM 1032. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
The name "Rocchigiani" on f. 17, s. XVII (?). Belonged to David John Carnegie, 10th Earl of Northesk (1865-1921); his sale, London, 23 July 1914, n. 418 to G. D. Smith, Cat. 13 (1915) n. 693, who placed it in a sale by Anderson, New York, 12 December 1917 n. 298 to G. D. Smith for Henry E. Huntington.
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