• Satyricon / Petronius Arbiter.

Extent:

• 26 leaves : paper ; 304 x 213 (263 x 115-155) mm bound to 313 x 226 mm.

Date:

• 1564

Language:

• Latin

Author:

• Petronius Arbiter

Abstract:

• Satirical comic novel.

Description:

• 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.

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 249

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99131650459506421

Scribe:

• Mesmes, Jean Pierre de, 1516-