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
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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