Pharsalia
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9998945
Description
- Title
- Pharsalia
- Creator
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Published / Created
- 11th or 12th century
- Publication Place
- Northern Italy
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment of Lucan's De bello civili (Pharsalia).
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: copied by various hands writing a small late Carolingian script. Folios 24v-25r have been erased, ruled again in lead and rewritten by a 13th century hand using Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria; the top 10 lines of f. 41r appear to be rewritten over erasure by one of the main hands. Headings, explicits and incipits in display script heightened with red. Red heightening of the opening majuscules of the verses and of the paragraph marks.
Lucan's De bello civili (Pharsalia). The text is incomplete due to the loss of two quires in the middle and two leaves at the end. Marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections date from the 12th-15th centuries. There are running headlines “I”, “II”, “III” etc. on the recto pages up to f. 56. The manuscript also contains a fictitious epitaph of Lucan.
The manuscript contains two maps: (1) in the outer margin of f. 21v: schematic drawing coloured in red and yellow illustrating the fauces, lingua and cornua of the harbour of Brundisium; (2) in the outer margin of f. 87v: erased T-O map with the winds, uncoloured, illustrating the description of the world beginning.
Binding: English 19th century binding: brown leather over cardboard; on the spine the gold-tooled title “LUCANI / PHAR./ SALIA”. Marbled endleaves. - Provenance
- Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9805). Purchased from H.P. Kraus in 1987 on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
- Extent
- ff. 87: 220 mm x 150 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 673
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Lucan, 39-65.
- Subject (Topic)
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Classical literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Narrative poetry, Latin - Subjects
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Lucan, 39-65.
Classical literature
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Narrative poetry, Latin
Italy > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Lucan, Pharsalia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9634029
- Object ID (OID)
- 9998945
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