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Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum [In situ fragments] Public Deposited

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  • Author: Valerius Maximus (active 17-31 CE) ** Language: Latin. Incipit: // maiestatis eius et amplitudinis vano sermone contemptor in carcerem est iectus postquam Pauli. Explicit: rei conpotes expleta gratiarum actione cultu que anguis aperitis excepto leti inde solverunt //. Folio range: Front pastedown ** Language: Latin. Incipit: // ac prosperam emensi navigationem postquam antium apulerunt anguis qui ubique in navigio. Explicit: repente vox ex proxima silva arsia que ore silvani in hunc pene modum missa traditur //. Folio range: Back pastedown
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Time Period
  • Mid-15th century
Place of Origin
  • Italy?
Related Work
Description
  • Two consecutive leaves of Valerius Maximus' Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium (1.8.1-5) used as pastedowns in an incunabulum. This hand has been influenced by Humanistic scripts.
Call Number
  • BX2000.A3.D87 1479
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • xau_013a_001
Keywords
  • Treatise
  • Italy
  • Binding fragment
  • Roman antiquity
  • History
Title
  • Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum [In situ fragments]
Author
  • Valerius Maximus (active 17-31 CE)
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: In situ. Classification: Pastedown. Support material: Paper (material). Extent: 2. Page dimensions (in mm): 293 x 197. Written area (in mm): 216 x 140. Line height (in mm): 10.1. Script: Gothic. Layout: One column, twenty-one lines, unruled. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 21. Decoration: None.
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • BT 4422.D8 (Olim call number)
  • id00419000 (ISTC)
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Source Metadata Identifier
Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Xavier University Library University Archives and Special Collections. Cincinnati, OH.
Provenance
  • These pastedowns are found in a copy of Guillelmus Duranti, Rationale divinorum officiorum (Treviso: Michael Manzolus, 1479). The volume, which also contains an in situ breviary fragment, was formerly in the collection of Fr. Edwin J. Auweller (or Auweiller) (Collegio di S. Bonaventura, Brozzi, Quaracchi, Florence, Italy) and the Holy Family Monastery in Oldenburg, Indiana. Previously owned by St. Leonard College. Purchased by Xavier University in 1982.

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