Satyrae [manuscript], ca. 15th century / D. Junii Juvena.
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Title
Satyrae [manuscript], ca. 15th century / D. Junii Juvena.
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Description
103 leaves ; 23 x 16 cm
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Material base
Manuscript on parchment (goatskin).
Scope and content
Contains satires on Roman life by Juvenal, followed by biographical information on Juvenal, extracted from Suetonius' Life of Juvenal.
Language Note
In Latin.
Note
Manuscript codex.
Title from book spine.
Collation: Leaves i + 103 ; 1-12⁸ 13⁸(-1); no catchwords, quires unsigned; ruled but blank leaves: i, 102r-103v.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines (dimensions of written space: 155 x 100 mm); frame-ruled with double bounding vertical lines in purple ink; written above line; interlinear and marginal scholia in contemporary hand, as well as modern annotations in pencil, ca. 1800.
Script: Written by a professional scribe in Humanistic script.
Decoration: Gothic-shaped gold-leaf initials with purple pen flourishing on leaves 1r, 10r, 22v, 44v, 58r, 71v, 80v, and 96r; Gothic-shaped blue initials with red pen flourishing on leaves 18v, 27r, 51r, 62r, 77r, 87r, and 100v.
Origin: Northern Italy, 15th century.
Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.114.
Title from book spine.
Collation: Leaves i + 103 ; 1-12⁸ 13⁸(-1); no catchwords, quires unsigned; ruled but blank leaves: i, 102r-103v.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines (dimensions of written space: 155 x 100 mm); frame-ruled with double bounding vertical lines in purple ink; written above line; interlinear and marginal scholia in contemporary hand, as well as modern annotations in pencil, ca. 1800.
Script: Written by a professional scribe in Humanistic script.
Decoration: Gothic-shaped gold-leaf initials with purple pen flourishing on leaves 1r, 10r, 22v, 44v, 58r, 71v, 80v, and 96r; Gothic-shaped blue initials with red pen flourishing on leaves 18v, 27r, 51r, 62r, 77r, 87r, and 100v.
Origin: Northern Italy, 15th century.
Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.114.
Contents
1. leaves 1r-102r: "[rubr.] D[ecimus]. Junii Juuenalis Aquin. Liber primus incipit. [text, Satura I] Semper ego auditor [...]quamne reponam vexatus toties rauci Teseyde Coobei? ... experiar quid concedatur in illos quorum Flaminea tegitur cinis atque Latina. [leaf 5v: Satura II] Ultra Sauromatas fugere hinc libet et glacialem Occeanum, quoties aliquid de moribus audent ... mittentur brace, cultelli, frena, flagellum; sic pretextatos referunt ad Artaxata mores. [leaf 10r: Satura III] Quamuis digressu ueteris confusus amici, laudo tamen uacuis quod sedem figere Cumis ... ni pudet illas, adiutor gelidos uenias caligatus in agros. [leaf 18v: Satura IV] Ecce iterum Crispinus! adest mihi sepe uocandus ad partes ... postquam cerdonibus esse timendus ceperat: ha[c] nocuit Lamiarum cede madenti. [leaf 22v: Satura V] Si te propositi nondum pudet ac eadem est mens, ut bona esse summa putes ... nec dura timebis flagra patti, his epulis et talli dignus amico. [leaf 27r: Satura VI] Credo pudititiam Saturno rege moratam in terris uisamque diu ... si pregustaret Atrides Pontica ter uicti cautus medicamina regis. [leaf 44v: Satura VII] Et spes et ratio studiorum in Cesare tantum; solus enim tristes hac tempestate ... et cum se uerterit annus, accipe uictori populus quid postulat aurum. [leaf 51r: Satura VIII] Stemmata quid faciunt? quid prodest, Pontice, longo sanguine censeri ... tuorum aut pastor fuit aut id quod dicere nolo. [leaf 58r: Satura IX] Scire uelim quare toties mihi, Neuole, tristis occuras fronte obducta ... que Siculos cantus effugit remige surdo. [leaf 62r: Satura X] Omnibus in terris, que sunt a Gadibus usque Auroram et Gangem ... sed te nos facimus fortuna deam celoque locamus. [leaf 71v: Satura XI] Atticus eximie si coenat, lautus habetur; si Rutilus demens d enim maiore chachino ... talis quoque tedia uite magna; uoluptates commendat rarior usus. [leaf 77r: Satura XII] Natali, Coruine, die mihi carior hec lux, qua festus promissa ... montibus aurum exequet, nec amet quenquam nec ametur ab ullo. [leaf 80v: Satura XIII] Exemplo quodcumque malo commititur, ipsi displicet auctori ... tandemque fatebere letus nec Surdum nec Tyresiam quemquam esse deorum. [leaf 87r: Satura XIV] Plurima sunt, Fuscine, et fama digna sinistra et quid maiorum uino sequitur ... indulsit Cesar cui Claudius omnia, cuius paruit imperiis uxorem occidere iussus. [leaf 96r: Satura XV] Quis nescit, Volusci Bythimie, qualia demens Aegiptos portenta colat .... cunctis animalibus abstinuit qui tamquam homine et uentri indulsit non omne legumen. [leaf 100v, Satura XVI] Quis numerare queat foelicis premia, Galle, militie ... et leti phaleris omnes et torquibus omnes. [rubr.] Finis Iuuenalis." (Saturarum liber / edited by James Willis. Stutgardiae: Teubner, 1997, p. 1-213).
2. leaf 102r: "[rubr.] Domitius Caldorinus. De uita Iuuenalis. [text] Iuuenalis Iunius, libertini locupletis incertum alumpnus an filius, ad mediam fere etatem ... neque his assentior qui in libros distribuntur."
2. leaf 102r: "[rubr.] Domitius Caldorinus. De uita Iuuenalis. [text] Iuuenalis Iunius, libertini locupletis incertum alumpnus an filius, ad mediam fere etatem ... neque his assentior qui in libros distribuntur."
Binding information
Bound in 18th-century Italian calf, with gold tooling on spine and tooling on fore-edge. Spine title: D. Junii Juvena Satytae.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Frederick de Schennis (armorial stamp); W.R. Smedley (bookplate).
Source of acquisition
Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
Cited/described in
Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.11
Includes
Suetonius, ca. 69-approximately 122. De vita Juvenalis.
Place of creation/publication
Italy.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.114
Folger accession
Smedley 11