Item Summary

Satirical comic novel.

Descriptive Information

Title
Satyricon / Petronius Arbiter.
Call Number
Princeton MS. 249
Identifier
ark:/88435/dccv43pb30d
Publisher
[Paris, France?], 1564.
Language
Latin
Date Created
1564
Extent
26 leaves : paper ; 304 x 213 (263 x 115-155) mm bound to 313 x 226 mm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Gold tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
90

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a1080d32-91e5-4a89-ba03-b0cc95937a42/manifest