StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
Level | Item |
Reference Number | MS LAT/14 |
Title | Juvenal's Satires |
Date | Late 15th century or early 16th century |
Description | Manuscript volume, late 15th or early 16th century, containing Juvenal's 'Satirae' 1-16 (satires).
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. |
Extent | 1 volume containing 92 leaves |
AdminHistory | Written in Italy. |
Acquisition | Bequeathed to University College London by the classicist Thomas Hewitt Key (1799-1875) and received in 1876, with Richard Toward's 'Latinum inverso ordine vocabularium', now MS LAT 18. A letter pasted into the cover of MS LAT 18 announces the gift of both items. |
AccessStatus | Open |
AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
FindingAids | 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' (London and Oxford, 1969); handlist at University College London Special Collections. |