Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

Mesmes, Jean Pierre de, 1516- [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 249 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

Satirical comic novel.

Notes

• Incipit: "Vm alio genere furiará declamatores inquíetantur, qui clamant: 'Haec vulnera pro libertate publica excepi ..."
• Explicit: "Cum esset Numantia a Scipione capta inventae sunt matres, quae liberorum suor. tenerent semesa in sinu corpora."
• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1r.)
• Marginal annotations in red by Pierre Pithou (1539-96) and others. Princeton University Library label on upper pastedown. Accompanied by a French certificate of export dated 23/11/2017, and a handwritten note about the manuscript.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. vi + 26 + x ; pagination in ink on alternate pages ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 47 lines per page.
• Description: Watermarks (fleur-de-lis with the name Nivelle)
• Origin: Copied by Jean-Pierre De Mesmes from the Codex Memmianus. "1564 I.P.M. transcripsit" (fol. 26r.)

Binding note

Later binding. Half-bound in red leather and orange textured paper. Gold-tooled lines on covers and spine. Brown and red marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Place name(s)

France Paris

OCLC

1548131062

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