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Beinecke MS 1157
Italy, [circa 1075-1099]
Virgil, Georgica.
In Latin.
1 leaf : parchment ; 305 x 195 mm.
- Material is open for research.
- Manuscript fragment of Book 1, lines 61-120 of Virgil's Georgics.
- Previously owned by Bernard Rosenthal. Schøyen MS 61. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch,
Ltd., (Sotheby's sale, London, 2012 July 10, lot 8) on the Herman W. Liebert Fund,
2012.
- Layout: single column.
- Script: Beneventan miniscule, in brown ink.
- Fifteenth-century marginalia on verso.
- Virgil, Georgica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
University.
Subjects:
- Virgil. -- Georgica.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
- Pastoral poetry, Latin.
- Manuscripts, Medieval -- Italy -- 11th century.
- Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
- Schøyen, Martin