Bryn Mawr College, MS 6

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16509

Shelfmark:

MS 6

Title:

Epistolae ad familiares; Rime, Trionfi, etc.

Epistolae ad familiares

Rime

Triumphs

Author:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Cicero WIKIDATA

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Petrarch WIKIDATA

Pseudo-Cicero

Pseudo-Cicero WIKIDATA

Pseudo-Seneca

Pseudo-Seneca WIKIDATA

Place:

Castro Massignani Ferrara, Italy

Ferrara TGN

Italy TGN

Venice, Italy

Venice TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

1432-1456

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Italian; Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Latin WIKIDATA

Italian WIKIDATA

Ancient Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+218+viii; 309 x 207 mm bound to 316 x 225 mm; paper

Former Owner(s):

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951

Howard Lehman Goodhart WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Sagredo, Gerardo

Gerard of Csanád WIKIDATA

Note:

Previously Goodhart 5
On front cover on a torn paper label: "...d[?] 753." On spine in ink: "LXXXIII/ ca 4[?]"
On spine in ink: "LXXXIII/ ca 4[?]"
Remnants of foliation for individual works
On fol. 106v five lines of Latin in later hand giving various readings for the letters SPQR
May be MS 118 in Albrizzi cat., Venice ca. 1746 in possession of Gerardo Sagredo collection
The scribe, Petrus de Carbonibus, frequently dates the end of his work with dates occurring after end of each text
In the letters that include Greek text, a space has been left for the Greek to be added; usually that space remains blank, although in a few cases the Greek has been added by a later hand
Text breaks off at bottom of fol. 218v
Binding: Venice, circa 1720; olive-paneled roan of the type made exclusively for Gerardo Sagnedo; gold-tooled Venetian arms added soon after consisting of an oval escutcheon quartered by a curved pale and fesse; gold-tooled title on spine: "M. T. CIC./ EPISTOLAE//PETRARCA/ RIME"
Layout: Fols. 1r-106v: single column, thirty-nine to forty-six lines, unruled with single vertical bounding lines in lead or hardpoint, right bounding line either left out completely or else ignored, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 226 x 153 mm
Layout: Fols. 107r-113v: four columns, sixty lines, unruled with single vertical bounding lines on the left side of each column, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 242 x 154 mm
Layout: Fols. 114r-125v: two columns, fifty-five to fifty-eight lines, unruled with single vertical bounding lines, the right line ignored, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 242 x 177 mm
Layout: Fol. 126r: two columns, about sixty-two lines, unruled with single vertical bounding lines in ink, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 220 x 103 mm
Layout: Fols. 127r-197v: single column, about fifty eight lines, unruled with double vertical bounding lines in ink, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 213 x 90 mm
Layout: Fols. 199r-218v: single column, about forty-seven lines, unruled with vertical bounding lines in lead, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 212 x 125 mm
Script: Fere-humanistic script
Script: Scribe: Petrus de Carbonibus
Script: Scribe: Leonardus de Carbonibus
Decoration: Two eight-line pen and ink initials and one nine-line pen and ink initial; one- to two-line black ink initials begin each of Cicero's letters, occasionally the initial letter is omitted with only a tiny guide letter visible in margin. In the Canzoniere, spaces have been left for initials, but not filled in. Text is accompanied by marginalia and interlinear glosses in several hands...
Related resource: Cicero. Epistulae ad familiares. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ed. (Cambridge, 1977) vol. 1 and 2.
Related resource: Cicero, M. Tulli. Letter to Octavian, Epistulae. W. S. Watt, ed. (Oxford, 1958) vol. 3, pp. 186 ff.
Related resource: Cicero. Epistulae ad M. Brutum. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ed. (Leipzig, 1988) pp. 95-132.
Related resource: Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma. GKW, vol. 6, nos. 7031-7040.
Related resource: Pseudo-Cicero. De proprietatibus terminorum. GKW, vol. 6, nos. 7024-7030.
Related resource: Petrarch. Canzoniere; in Rime, trionfi, e poesie latine. F. Neri, ed. (Torino, 1963) 2nd ed., 29-508.
Related resource: Petrarch. Poems 5 and 4, Rime disperse. Joseph A. Barber, ed. (New York, 1991).
Related resource: Petrarca, Francesco. Rime disperse. Angelo Solerti, ed. [Firenze, 1909].
Related resource: Petrarch. Rime, trionfi, e poesie latine. F. Neri, ed. (Torino, 1963) 2nd ed., 509-602.
Related resource: Ps.-Seneca. De remediis fortuitorum bonorum liber. F. Hasse, ed. (Leipzig, 1872) pp. 446-57.
Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1676, no. 5.
Related resource: Ullman, B. L. Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova, 1964) no. 62.
Related resource: Dutschke, Dennis. Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova, 1986) no. 86.
Related resource: Wilkins, E. H. Making of the "Canzoniere" and other Petrarchan Studies (Rome, 1951).
Related resource: Catalogo di una libreria che si trova vendibile in Venezia appresso Giambattista Albrizzi (ca. 1746), p. CCXXXVII, no. 118.
Provenance: Written in Ferrara and Venice in 1432-1434 by Petrus de Carbonibus whose colophons recur frequently throughout the work (e.g. fols. 16r, 17v, 26v 38v, 41r, 50v, 56v, etc.) and by his son Leonardus, who wrote the last leaf in Castro Massignani on 31 May 1456. Probably from the collection of Gerardo Sagredo of Venice. (Albrizzi cat., Venice circa 1746, ms. 118?), sold by Thorpe (his...

Keyword:

Fifteenth century

Italian (culture or style)

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS06.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS6/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College