DUL Add.MS. 1950/C/33 DUL Add.MS. 1950/C/33/i-xiLivy (fragment)
Held by: Durham University Library: Additional Manuscripts

Single leaf removed from a copy of the third decade of Livy's Ab urbe condita written by Giacomo Curlo in Genoa in 1459, purchased in an incomplete state by Otto Ege in 1950. He removed single leaves from this and sold them in portfolios of mixed manuscript material. The remaining part of the book was sold in 1984 and is now at the Bodleian Library, Bodl. Lat. class e. 53.

Digitised: https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m8049g516z.html

Physical description of manuscript
Support

Parchment

Extent: 1 leaf
Size: 223 mm x 159 mm
Layout

24 lines

Script

Written in littera antiqua (humanistic), extremely proficiently

Manuscript contents

Printed label produced by Otto F. Ege to accompany document. Correspondence and copies of related manuscripts.

Manuscript history
Creation

Written in Italy, Genoa, 1459.

Provenance

Bought from Maggs, 1980, for £175. A full account of the modern history of this manuscript is in de la Mare 2000. Portfolio II/29 (see Catalogue of fragments, manuscript and printed, amongst Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections).

Manuscript contents
Original title: Ab urbe condita, book 26 (fragment)
Author: Livy
Language: Latin

“extremi syracusanorum. quippe qui aliis ... ... leuino. quod sine iactura reipu” Book 26, xxxi-ii.

Edited: de la Mare 2000, this is leaf L in appendix A (p.72).

Digitised material for Durham University Library Fragments - Add.MS 1950/C/33 - Leaf from Livy
Digitised September 2018
https://n2t.durham.ac.uk/ark:/32150/t2m8049g516z.html
Bibliography

de la Mare, A. C., "A Livy copied by Giacomo Curlo dismembered by Otto Ege" in Interpreting and collecting fragments of medieval books: proceedings of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford 1998   OCLC citation, ed. L. L. Brownrigg & M. M. Smith (Los Altos, CA: Anderson Lovelace, 2000), 57-88

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