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Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum

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Antwerpen, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Verzameling Losse Aanwinsten, nr. 15.7

Laurent Breeus-Loos, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2021 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum
Shelfmarks Antwerp, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Verzameling Losse Aanwinsten, nr. 15.7
Material Parchment
Date of Origin s. XV
Script, Hands

Gothica hybrida (s. XV). Single compartment letter 'a', 'f' and long 's' extend beyond the baseline, ascenders without loops.

Later additions (s. XVII) on fol. [2]r (see: provenance)

Original Condition

Page Height 298 mm
Page Width at least 165 mm
Height of Written Area 185 – 187 mm
Width of Written Area 123 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 123 mm
Number of Lines 35
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling Full ink ruling

Current Condition

Dimensions 298 x 165 mm (fol. [1])
More about the Current Condition

Only the outer margins of both leaves seem trimmed (no significant loss of text).

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Plain initials (red, blue), rubrics (red)

Content

  • Content Item
    • Persons Lucius Annaeus Florus
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum
    • Content Description

      The leaves are consecutive (inner bifolium of a quire).

      Fol. [1]r - [2]v: Epitome Rerum Romanorum, Book II, chapter VII (Bellum Cassi et Bruti), section V - chapter XII (Bellum cum Antonio et Cleopatra), section I (ed. Forster 1929)
    • Edition Florus, Lucius Annaeus, Epitome Rerum Romanarum. Epitome of Roman History., ed. by Edward Seymour Forster (London: William Heineman, 1929)

History

Provenance

The fragment functioned as a cover or a wrapper of a seventeenth-century account book, according to the Dutch inscription on fol. [2]r:

"Rekeninghe Jasper van den Janss. van den jaere 1626"

Antwerp, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Verzameling Losse Aanwinsten, nr. 2.4 contains an inscription with a similar provenance, dating from 1624/25.

Host Volume

Remarks

See: provenance
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