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Juvenal's Satires


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS LAT 14

Held at: University College London

Title: Juvenal's Satires

Date(s): Late 15th century or early 16th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume containing 92 leaves

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Written in Italy.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript volume, late 15th or early 16th century, containing Juvenal's Satirae 1-16 (satires).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin. Bastarda script.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Paper manuscript in original covers of tooled calf. Text in one hand, with corrections in several hands. Headings in red, initials in blue. Gold leaf initial and ornamented border on folio 1r. 22cm.

Finding aids:

Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); handlist at University College London Special Collections.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Bequeathed to University College London by the classicist Thomas Hewitt Key (1799-1875) and received in 1876.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Humour (literary) | Literary forms and genres | Literature

Personal names
Juvenal | d c 127 | Roman satiric poet | full name Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Corporate names

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