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Detailed record for Royal 20 D I
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| Title |
Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, part 3 of the second redaction |
| Origin |
Italy, S. (Naples) |
| Date |
2nd quarter of the 14th century |
| Language |
French |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
4 full page miniatures in colours, silver, and gold, damaged (ff. 26v, 67, 154, 169). 297 miniatures in colours, some in colours and gold, in the lower margins. 2 small miniatures in colours, integrated in columns of the text (ff. 163v, 191). Numerous instructions to illuminators in French (ff. 33, 47, 50v, 53, 58, 60, 62v, 75v, 79, 82v, 99v, 102v, 106, 117, 123v, 134, 139v, 141v, 144, 145v, 146, 148, 148v, 149v, 150v, 154, 156, 159v, 161, 165v-167, 169, 172, 174, 175v-177, 178v, 179, 192, 193v, 246, 248-249, 257v-259, 260, 263v, 267v, 269, 271, 272, 273, 274, 276, 277, 279, 279v, 280v, 281, 282, 283v-185, 290, 291, 296-298, 299v, 300v, 304, 305, 307v, 311, 314, 315, 317, 319, 320, 323v, 324v, 321, 330v, 332, 334v, 335v, 336, 337, 338, 339, 341), some with space left for miniatures (ff. 246v, 249v, 250, 252-254v, 255v, 256v-257, 259v, 261, 263, 264v, 266, 269v, 273v, 274v, 282v, 308v, 311v). Historiated (ff. 27, 38v, 82v, 86v, 93, 104v, 109v, 117v, 125v, 130v, 134v, 138v, 140, 141, 143v, 145, 149v, 153v, 155v, 156, 158, 172, 191, 194, 223v, 344) or ornamental initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of books. Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with purple pen-flourishing. |
| Dimensions in mm |
335 x 235 (215 x 140) |
| Official foliation |
ff. i + 363 (+ 3 unfoliated medieval parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end; f. i is a medieval parchment flyleaf) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
A member of the Anjou family of Naples (perhaps Robert of Anjou (b. 1277, d. 1343), king of Naples and titular king of Jerusalem): the arms of Anjou, Anjou-Naples, Anjou-Hungary, and Anjou quartered with Provence, assigned to Greek heroes in the miniatures (e.g., ff. 21v, 35, 35v, 88), with the modified arms of Jerusalem (f. 138v). Charles V (b. 1338, d. 1380), king of France: to be identified with the 'Dez faiz de Troye, des Roumains, de Thèbes, de Alexandre le Grant, hystorié au commencement, escript de lettre boulenoise, et sont les ystoires par les marges très anciennes' listed in the catalogue of his Louvre library composed after his death in 1380, no. 93 (see Léopold Delisle, Recherches sur la Librairie de Charles V, 2 vols (Paris: Champion, 1907), II, no 1211). Charles VI, king of France: inherited by him with the Louvre Library; a note in the catalogue of 1380 recording a withdrawal of the manuscript by the king before his pilgrimage to Mont Saint-Michel, c. 1393-1394, 'Le roy le print quant il ala au Mont Saint Michel' (See Avril 1969). Jean of Valois, (b. 1340, d.1416), duke of Berry: included in the inventory of his library of 1413, no. 61: 'Item un livre des Histoires de Troye, d'Alixandre et des mains, ouquel fault le commancement, lequel fut du roy, et au commancement du secont feuillet a escript: et fait; et est couvert de cuir vert, fermant à deux fermouers de laton' (See Delisle, 1907, II, no 226). Renaut (or Regnault) du Montet, Parisian libraire, probably responsible for supervising the production of the copy of Royal 20 D I, identified with Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 301: a note recording of a missing quire in his possession that was given to the Parisian illuminator Perrin Remiet (or Remy), active 1368, or c. 1396-1420 : 'Ci faut le secomt cayer que maistre Renaut doit avoir, qui fut baille / a Perrin Remiet po[ur] faire lenluminure de lautre cayer', (f. 8); probably to be identified with the Neapolitan manuscript copied for Jean, duke of Berry, for which Bureau de Dampmartin, duke's agent, paid an unnamed libraire in 1402 (see Rouse 2000, I). List of contents, 15th century (f. i verso). Inscribed: 'Viue le roy noble Henry / O misericordia of the Taxe', 15th century (f. i). The Old Royal Library (the English Royal Library): probably to be identified with 'La destruction de Thebes' included in the list of books at Richmond Palace of 1535, no. 104; and in the catalogue of 1666, Royal Appendix 71, f. 11. Presented to the British Museum by George II in 1757 as part of the Old Royal Library. |
| Notes |
This manuscript contains the second redaction of the text, probably produced in the 14th century and the Roman de Troie is the Prose 5 version (see Jung 1996, pp. 440, 506). The revision did not achieve the popularity of the original text (which survives in around seventy manuscripts), and is now preserved in only thirteen manuscripts. It is drawn from a variety of sources, covering ancient history from Thebes in the time of Oedipus to Rome in the time of Pompey. This is the earliest surviving copy of this second redaction of 'Histoire ancienne jusq'à César', which focuses on Troy, eliminating the biblical histories and the history of Alexander. It preserves the sections dedicated to Thebes, the Greeks and Amazons, Aeneas, Rome, and the Persians. Following the Italian fashion the illustrations are in the lower margin rather than integrated in the text. The direct copies of Royal 20 D I, produced in France, are: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale fr. 301, and Stowe 54. Paris fr. 301was probably illuminated by Perrin Remiet (the 1st painter, according to Avril 1969) and includes four miniatures (ff. 25, 59, 134v, 147) copied from Royal 20 D I (ff. 26v, 67, 154, 169). Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Correction sign 'cor xxvii' (f. 254v). According to Sagesse (2010), the four full-page miniatures might have been painted by the Neapolitan, Christophoro Orimina. |
| Select bibliography |
P. Meyer, 'Les premières compilations françaises d'histoire ancienne', Romania, 14 (1885), 36-81 (p. 50).
H. Omont, 'Les manuscrits français des rois d'Angleterre au château de Richmond', in Etudes romanes dédiés à Gaston Paris (Paris: É. Bouillon, 1891), pp. 1-13 (p. 11).
George F. Warner and Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1921), II, pp. 375-77.
Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Catalogue of Astrological and Mythological Illuminated Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages, 4 vols (London: The Warburg Institute, 1953), III: Manuscripts in English Libraries, pp. 223-42.
Fritz Saxl, 'The Troy Romance in French and Italian Art', in Lectures, 2 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1957), I, pp. 125-38 (pp. 135-36).
Robert L. Wyss, Dei Caesarteppiche und ihr ikonographiches Verhältnis zur Illustration der 'Faits des Romains' im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert (Bern: K. J. Wyss, 1957), p. 61.
François Avril, 'Trois Manuscrits Napolitains des Collections de Charles V et de Jean de Berry', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 127 (1969), 291-328 (p. 295 n. 3, 300-07, 309, 311-14).
Hugo Buchthal, Historia Troiana: Studies in the History of Mediaeval Secular Illustration (London: The Warburg Institute, 1971), pp. 16, 30, 33, 36, 39, 41.
Jaroslav Folda, Crusader Manuscript Illumination at Saint-Jean d'Acre, 1275-1291 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976), p. 142, n. 114.
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, 'Frühe angiovinische Buchkunst in Neapel', in Festschrift Wolfgang Braunfels, ed. by Friedrich Piel and Jörg Träger (Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1977), pp. 71-92 (pp. 71, 88, n. 2).
Patrick de Winter, 'Copistes, éditeurs et enlumineurs de la fin du XIVe siècle: La production à Paris de manuscrit à miniatures', in Actes des 100e congrès national des Sociétés Savantes, Paris 1975 (Paris 1978) 173-98 (p. 176, n. 2).
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Manuscript (Oxford: Phaidon, 1979), pl. 45.
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, part 2 in two volumes (Berlin: Gerb. Mann, 1980), II, p. 279.
Clem C. Williams, 'A case of Mistaken Identity: Still Another Trojan Narrative in Old French Prose', Medium Aevum, 53 (1984) 59-72 (pp. 60, 61, 62).
François Avril, 'Un atelier 'picard' à la cour Angevins de Naples', in 'Nobile claret opus': Festgabe für Frau Prof. Dr. Ellen Judith Beer zum 60. Geburstag, Zeitschrift für Schweizerishe Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, 43 (1986), pp. 76-85 (p. 76, fig. 2).
Fake? The Art of Deception, ed. by Mark Jones, Paul Craddock, and Nicolas Barker (London: British Museum, 1990), no. 37 [exhibition catalogue].
Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), pp. 50 n. 85, 135, fig. 231.
Scot McKendrick, 'La vraye histoire de Troye la grant': Truth and Romance in the Late Medieval Story of Troy in Literature and Art', in Why fakes matter: essays on problems of authenticity, ed. by Mark Jones (London: British Museum Press, 1992), pp. 71-87 (p. 73, fig. 2).
Marc-René Jung, La Légende de Troie en France au moyen age (Basel & Tubingen: Francke Verlag, 1996), pp. 347, 355, 499, 505, 506, 509-26.
The Mythical Quest: In Search of Adventure, Romance and Enlightenment, intro. by Penelope Lively (London: British Library, 1996), pls on pp. 9, 14.
Janet Backhouse, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), no. 97.
Jane Chance, 'Mostra - naturalità distorte: Bertram dal Bornio, Ecuba', in I mostra nell'inferno dantesco: Tradizione e simbologia, Atti del XXXIII Convegno Storico Internazionale, Todi 13-16 ottobre 1996 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi Sull'Alto Medioevo, 1997), pp. 235-76 (p. 236, fig. 2).
Histoire Ancienne jusqu'a César (Estoires Roger), ed. by Marijke de Visser-van Terwisga, 2 vols (Orleans: Paradigme, 1999), vol 1 [an edition of the text], vol 2, pp. 14, 22, n. 72, 73.
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London: The British Library, 2000), H1.94.
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500, 2 vols (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2000), I, pp. 293-96, 402 n. 66; II, pp. 115, 124.
Christopher de Hamel, The British Library Guide to Manuscript Illumination: History and Techniques (London: British Library, 2001), pl. 42.
Alessandra Perriccioli Saggese, 'L’Enluminure á Naples au temps des Anjou (1266 - 1350)', in L’Europe des Anjou: Aventure des princes angevins du XIIIe au XVe siècle, ed. by Francesco Aceto et al. (Paris: Somogy, 2001), pp. 123-33 (p. 127).
Paris 1400: Les arts sous Charles VI (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2004), pp. 206, 268, fig. 55 on p. 206 [exhibition catalogue].
Alessandra Perriccioli Saggese, 'Cristophoro Orimina: An Illuminator at the Court of Naples', in The Anjou Bible: A Royal Manuscript Revealed, Naples 1340, ed. by Lieve Watteeuw and Jan Van der Stock (Paris: Peeters, 2010), pp. 113-25.
Elizabeth Morrison and Anne D. Hedeman, eds, Imagining the Past: History in Manuscript Painting 1250-1500 (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010), no. 50 [exhibition catalogue].
Scot McKendrick, John Lowden, and Kthleen Doyle, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (London: British Library, 2011), no. 135 [exhibition catalogue]. |
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f. 1 Infant Oedipus |

f. 2 Death of Laius |

f. 6 Tydeus and Polynices |
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f. 8 Tydeus |

f. 8v Marginal note |

f. 8v Marginal note |
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f. 10 Tydeus |

f. 11 Tydeus |

f. 12v Adrastus |
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f. 15v Adrastus |

f. 16v Thebes |

f. 17 Jocasta |
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f. 17v Tame tiger |

f. 18 Battle scene |

f. 18v Car of Amphiaraus |
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f. 19v Eteocles and Polynices |

f. 20v Adrastus and Theseus |

f. 21 Theseus |
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f. 21v Battle |

f. 22 Minotaur |

f. 22v Battle scene |
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f. 23v Battle scene |

f. 24v Hercules |

f. 25v Hercules and the Queen of the Amazons |
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f. 26 Hercules and the giant |

f. 26v Troy, Rome, Contantinople, and Galatea |

f. 27 The Sphinx slain |
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f. 33v Jason |

f. 34v Expedition against Troy |

f. 34v Expedition against Troy |
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f. 35 Troy |

f. 35v Battle |

f. 35v Battle |
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f. 36 Troy |

f. 37v Medea |

f. 37v Medea |
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f. 38 Hercules |

f. 38 Hercules |

f. 38v Historiated initial |
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f. 41 Rebuilding of Troy |

f. 41 Rebuilding of Troy |

f. 46v Palladium |
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f. 47 Voyage of Paris |

f. 49v Paris and Helen |

f. 50v Helen |
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f. 52v Priam, Hecuba, Paris and Helen |

f. 58 Greek ships |

f. 60 Siege of Lyrnessus |
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f. 60v Siege of Tenedos |

f. 61v Ulysses and Diomedes |

f. 62v Teuthras |
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f. 66v Flotilla of ships |

f. 66v Flotilla of ships |

f. 67 Scenes in Troy |
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f. 69v Agamemnon |

f. 70 Troy |

f. 72v Death of Patroclus |
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f. 73 Corpse of Patroclus |

f. 74v Hector |

f. 75v Le curre de Fion |
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f. 77v Thoas and Hector |

f. 78v Hector killing Meriones |

f. 79 Truce |
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f. 82v Palace of Priam |

f. 83 Hector and Achilles |

f. 83v Hector |
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f. 87 Agamemnon rescued by Achilles |

f. 88 Paris |

f. 88v Thoas, Achilles, and Hector |
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f. 89v Priam's palace |

f. 94v Centaur-archer |

f. 95 Capture of Antenor |
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f. 98v Battle scene |

f. 101v Cressida |

f. 102v Calcas |
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f. 105 Hector |

f. 105v Hector |

f. 106 Hector and Achilles |
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f. 106v Cressida |

f. 107 Troilus |

f. 108 Hector |
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f. 111 Battle scene |

f. 111v Troilus and Diomedes |

f. 112 Battle scene |
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f. 113 Hector and Achilles |

f. 114 Hector |

f. 114v Lament for Hector |
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f. 117 Dispute of Palamedes and Agamemnon |

f. 117 Dispute of Palamedes and Agamemnon |

f. 117v Priam |
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f. 118 Sarpedon killing Neoptolemus |

f. 120 Agamemnon |

f. 121 Hector |
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f. 122v Hecuba and Priam |

f. 123v Le parlement dachilles |

f. 126 Deiphobus |
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f. 126v Deiphobus |

f. 127 Death of Palamedes |

f. 127 Death of Palamedes |
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f. 127v Burning of ships |

f. 128 Achilles and Deiphobus |

f. 130v Trojans |
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f. 131 Battle scene |

f. 131v Nestor, Diomedes and Ulysses appealing to Achilles |

f. 134 Council of the Greeks |
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f. 134v Historiated initial |

f. 135 Diomedes |

f. 135v Battle scene |
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f. 136 Diomedes and Cressida |

f. 138v Agamemnon, Nestor, and Achilles |

f. 139 Troilus |
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f. 139v Troilus |

f. 140v Battle scene |

f. 141 Battle scene |
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f. 141v Battle scene |

f. 142 Achilles and Troilus |

f. 144 Death of Troilus |
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f. 144v Achilles and Memnon |

f. 145 Death of Memnon |

f. 145v Hecuba mourning over Troilus |
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f. 145v Hecuba mourning over Troilus |

f. 146 Troilus and Memnon |

f. 148 Achilles and Antilogus |
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f. 148v Mourning for Achilles |

f. 149v Trojans |

f. 150 Paris |
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f. 150v Death of Paris |

f. 151 Mourning for Paris |

f. 151v Mourning for Paris |
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f. 153 Priam meeting Penthesilia |

f. 154 Troy |

f. 155v Battle scene |
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f. 156 Pyrrhus |

f. 156v Pyrrhus |

f. 157 Penthesiliea |
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f. 158v Prowess of Ortia |

f. 159 Orian and Pyrrhus |

f. 159 Council of the Greeks |
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f. 161 Plots and councils in Troy |

f. 162 Antenor |

f. 163v Wheel of Fortune |
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f. 164 Grief of Priam |

f. 165v Trojan sacrifices |

f. 166 Theft of the Palladium |
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f. 166v Philimenes and Penthesilea |

f. 167 Oaths |

f. 167 Oaths |
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f. 167v Horse of Troy |

f. 168 Burning of the Greek camp |

f. 168 Burning of the Greek camp |
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f. 168v Return of the Greeks |

f. 168v Return of the Greeks |

f. 169 The Sack of Troy |
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f. 170v Trojan captives |

f. 171 Finding of Polyxena |

f. 172 Deaths of Polyxena and Hecuba |
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f. 174 Death of Ajax |

f. 176v Ships |

ff. 176v-177 Shipwreck of Ajax Oileus |
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f. 177 Shipwreck |

f. 178v Nauplius |

f. 179 Deaths of Assandrus and Agamemnon |
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f. 180 Diomedes and Aegiale |

f. 180v Death of Clytemnestra |

f. 181 Return of Menelaus and Helen |
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f. 181v Ulysses |

f. 185 Ulysses |

f. 185v Pyrrhus |
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f. 186v Pyrrhus |

f. 187 Pyrrhus |

f. 188v Pyrrhus |
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f. 189v Telemachus |

f. 190 Telegonus and Ulysses |

f. 190v Ulysses |
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f. 191v Landomacha |

f. 192 Calchas and Menelaus |

f. 192v Landromacha |
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f. 193 Landromacha |

f. 193v Landromacha |

f. 194 Aeneas |
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f. 196v Aeneas |

f. 197 Dido and Aeneas |

f. 199 Suicide of Dido |
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f. 200v Aegesta |

f. 201 Slaying the Minotaur |

f. 201 Slaying the Minotaur |
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f. 202 Etiam mensas consumimus |

f. 202v Lavinium |

f. 203 Text page |
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f. 205 Turnus |

f. 205 Turnus |

f. 206 Nisus and Euryalus |
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f. 206v Nisus and Volscens |

f. 209v Turnus and Camilla |

f. 210 Death of Camilla |
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f. 211v Battle scene |

f. 212 Battle scene |

f. 212v Death of Turnus |
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f. 215 Infant Cyrus |

f. 216 Persians |

f. 217v Cyrus |
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f. 218v Cyrus |

f. 219v Battle with Amazons |

f. 222v Battle of Salamis |
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f. 223 Battle of Plataea |

f. 224 Exposure of Romulus and Remus |

f. 225 Building of Rome |
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f. 225v Rape of the Sabines |

f. 227 Battle with the Sabines |

f. 231v Battle with the Tarquins |
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f. 232v Coriolanus |

f. 233v Fabii |

f. 233v Fabii |
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f. 235 Death of Virginia |

f. 235 Death of Virginia |

f. 236v Battle with Brenus |
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f. 237 Gauls in Rome |

f. 239v Curtius |

f. 240v Torquatus and the Gaul |
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f. 242 Corvinus and the Gaul |

f. 244v Battle with Samnites |

f. 244v Battle with the Samnites |
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f. 246 Theatre at Tarentum |

f. 247v Pyrrhus and elephants |

f. 248v Pyrrhus |
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f. 249 Elephants |

f. 251 Battle with the Carthaginians |

f. 251 Battle with the Carthaginians |
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f. 257v Romans |

f. 258 Naval battle |

f. 258 Naval battle |
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f. 263v Naval battle |

f. 264 Naval battle |

f. 267v Death of Hamilcar |
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f. 269 Defeat of the Gauls |

f. 270v Hannibal |

f. 271 Siege of Sagantum |
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f. 272 Taking of Saguntum |

f. 272 Taking of Saguntum |

f. 273 Hannibal |
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f. 273 Hannibal |

f. 274 Battle of the Ticinus |

f. 275v Sufferings of the Carthaginians |
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f. 275v Sufferings of the Carthaginians |

f. 276 Battle of Trasimenus |

f. 277 Battle of Cannae |
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f. 279 Battle of Nola |

f. 279v Defeat of the Hasdrubal |

f. 280v Hannibal |
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f. 281 Storm |

f. 282 Hannibal |

f. 283v Marroc |
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f. 284 Battle of Baecula |

f. 284v Capture of Tarentum |

f. 285 Battle and siege |
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f. 285 Battle and siege |

f. 286 Battle of Metaurus |

f. 288 Scipio |
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f. 290 Hannibal and Scipio |

f. 291 Battle of Zama |

f. 296 Glabrio defeating Antiochus |
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f. 297 Hannibal |

f. 297v Hannibal |

f. 299v Battle of Pydna |
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f. 300v Triumph of Aemilius Paulus |

f. 302v Scipio Africanus |

f. 304 Carthage |
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f. 305 Siege of Carthage |

f. 305 Siege of Carthage |

f. 306 Siege of Carthage |
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f. 306 Siege of Carthage |

f. 306v Burning of Carthage |

f. 307v Siege of Corinth |
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f. 309 Appius Claudius Pulcher |

f. 311 Battle of Mancinus |

f. 314 Battle of Scipio |
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f. 315 Battle of Scipio |

f. 316v Sortie from Numantia |

f. 317 Burning of Numantia |
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f. 319 Taking of a castle |

f. 319 Taking of a castle |

f. 320 P. Crassus and Aristonicus |
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f. 323v Carage |

f. 324v C. Gracchus |

f. 327 Marcius Rex |
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f. 330v Battle with Jugurtha |

f. 332 Triumph of Marius |

f. 334v Defeat of Caepio |
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f. 335v Aquae Sextiae |

f. 336 Women of Teutones |

f. 336 Women of Teutones |
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f. 337 Cimbrian women |

f. 338 Satuminus |

f. 340 Samnium |
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f. 341 Siege of Asculum |

f. 342v Sulpicius Rufus |

f. 343v Battle |
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f. 345v Sertorius and Octavius |

f. 347 Sulla |

f. 347v Marius the Younger |
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f. 347v Marius the Younger |

f. 348v Pompeius |

f. 349v Pompeius and Sertorius |
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f. 351 Siege in Spain |

f. 354 Defeat of Archelaus |

f. 356 Lucullus' messenger |
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f. 357 Varius |

f. 357 Varius |

f. 358 Pompeius |
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f. 359 Mithridates |

f. 361 Mithridates |

f. 361v City in Syria |
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f. 362v Pompeius in Jerusalem |

f. 363 Triumph of Pompeius |

f. 396v Hannibal |
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