Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Beinecke Digital Collections
Beinecke Library’s collections broadly document human expression and lived experience. Some objects use words or images that are now recognized as offensive and unacceptable; some may have been viewed as unacceptable when they were created. Inclusion of such objects in the digital library is not an endorsement of their language, images, or ideology. Libraries exist to help readers understand and confront history to inform the present in service of the future.
Questions about copyright, permissions, or access, including access to images restricted due to copyright or other reasons? Please visit copyright page.

Home > Historiarum romanorum libri I-...

Historiarum romanorum libri I-X

Historiarum romanorum libri I-X

Call Number:
Beinecke MS 1  (Request the physical item to view in our reading room)
Alternate Title:
Ab Urbe Condita
Creator: Livy
Language:
Latin
Date: [Late 15th or early 16th century]
Subjects:
Rome --History
Wodhull, Michael, 1740-1816, autograph
Genres:
Manuscripts
Illuminated manuscripts
Annotations
Autographs
Illuminations
Historiated initials
Decorated initials
Type of Resource:
text
Description:
On parchment.
Written in 31 long lines; double vertical bounding lines; ruled in lead.
On f. 1r: the initial F historiated with a view of Rome, full-page illuminated border in gold and colors into which are introduced the Trivulzio arms of Milan.
Initial on f. 2r damaged by crease.
f. 335r heavily creased.
Note in the hand of M. Wodhull (f. ii recto): "This appears to be the very Book which I saw Sir W. Burrell purchase in Dr. Askew's manuscript Auction No. 482 for thirty two Guineas; in Sir W. Burrell's Auction May 1796 it is said to have gone for about five, No. 657. The note in 'Bib. Askev. manuscripta' is: 'ex Panormo in Sicilia hunc cod. adduxit secum Cl. Askevius,' & '300 Annor. MSS longe pulcherrimus.'"
Binding: s. xviii. Brown leather, gold-tooled, edges marbled and gilt, rebacked, with T. LIVII DECAS PRIMA on spine.
ff. 336-340 blank, not digitized.
Abstract:
Written in Milan in the late 15th or early 16th century; arms of the Trivulzio family of Milan on f. 1r. According to A. C. de la Mare it is presumably part of the same set of Livy as Vienna Nationalbibl.
Physical Description:
ff. [iv] (paper) + 336 + [v] (paper)
ill.
358 x 252 (227 x 160) mm.
Volume/Enumeration:
1-10
Rights:
More about permissions and copyright
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.
Curatorial Area: Beinecke Library
Catalog Record:
A record for this resource appears in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Extent of Digitization:
Complete work digitized.
Source Digital Format:
High Resolution (image/tiff)
Object ID: 2039633
Download:
   |   Metadata record
Cite this   |   Text this   |   Report this
 
Similar Items