12 LIVY. THE EXECUTION OF THE PRIVERNATE GENERAL VITRUVIUS, with a group of onlookers headed by the Roman Consul Plautius, in the background a fortified gateway in which Vitruvius is seen being scourged, miniature on VELLUM, in colours with shading in gold, edged with a narrow gold frame, slightly rubbed, 18 lines of French text in a bastard hand on verso (from a large two-column page), mounted

[Flemish, c. 1460]

(102mm. by 76mm.)

[North-eastern France, third quarter of fifteenth century]

** From Livy, Book VIII, Chapter 20. The war between Rome and Privernum took place in 329 B.C.

Another miniature from same MS. is reproduced in Maggs, Bull.3, 57