University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 829
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1681
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 829
- Title:
- Renaissance miscellany.
- Place:
- Written in Italy
- Date:
- [between 1459-1484]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 105 leaves : paper ; 231 x 169 (157 x 110) mm bound to 235 x 170 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Lockwood, Dean Putnam, 1883-
Allen, William H
Curtius, Lancinus
- Note:
- Incipit (15th work): Responsio divi p[ri]ncipis Philippi Marie ducisM[i]l[an]i Anto[n]io s[upra]s[crip]to. [Exp.] ... ut alter alterius possit gaudere p[raese]ntia. Vale.
Folios 1r. and 105r. have the inscription, "Liber Lancini Curtii artiu[m] scolaris m[edio]l[an]en[sis] 1484."
Incipit (23rd work): Pillule Mag[ist]ri Antonii Cermisoni. [Exp.] ... in sole sicut siccantur [alifangine?].
Incipit (22nd work): Inter bellorum magnorum strages ac vix dum ... [Exp.] vicensimo primo anno post abrogata est [?] lata.
Incipit (21st work): Caius Sextus Pompeius Strabo veteribus incolis ... [Exp.] ... maiestatem minuisset capitalis esset.
Incipit (20th work): Solvite Pierides contuso pectore ... [Exp.] ... fractus contegitur lapide.
Incipit (19th work): M. T. Ciceronis de laudibus G. N. Pompei oratio incipit. [Exp.] ... meis omnibus commodis et rationibus preferre opportere. Finis.
Incipit (18th work): Argumentum Pompeiane. Cicero creatus pretor Romanus ... [Exp.] ... eloquentia contraria argumenta confutat.
Incipit (17th work): Epistola Antonii Panormite ad Aluysium Crottum ducalem ... [Exp.] Vale meum decus. Ex Papia.
Incipit (16th work): Alia responsio Antonii Panormite p[rae]libato duci Mediolani. [Exp.] ... tum locum mihi decernere quo melius id possim aggrediar idque perficiam. Vale spes Musarum.
Ms. codex.
Incipit (14th work): Epistola Antonii Panormite ad divu[m] p[ri]ncipem Phillippu[m] Mariam. [Exp.] Magna quidem coniectura probitatis est et laus non ultima principi et summo viro collibuisse. Vale.
Incipit (13th work): Sequitur libellus [?] defensio Poggii Florentini contra Guarini oppugnationes d[e] prestantia Cesaris et Scipio[n]is. [Exp.] Vale et parce longitudini me[a]e. Ex Florentia.
Incipit (12th work): Epistola eiusdem Poggius ad clarissimum virum Franciscum Barbarum civem Venetum. [Exp.] ... vel me vel Guarinum vel utcumque aut temeritatis aut ignorantie accusabis. Vale.
Incipit (11th work): Poggius Florentinus vir disertissimus per moleste secens q[uod] Guarin[us] Veronensis ad eum tam contumeliose scripserit in defendendo Cesarem edidit libellum in quo susceptam causam Scipionis defendit et ante ora[tionem] p[er] hanc ep[isto]lam se excusat apud illustrem dominu[m] Leonellum Marchionem Estensem. [Exp.] ... quod tu senseris sentire volo ac tuo indicio...
Incipit (10th work): Leonardi Justiniani Veneti viri [patertii?] oratio habita in funere clarissimi viri Caroli Zeno. [Exp.] Sed et imitatione quoque ac opere declaremus. Finis.
Incipit (9th work): Disceptatio habita inter doctissimos viros Nicolaum Niccolum et Carolinum Aretinum. An seni sit uxor ducenda -- per Pogiu[m] scripta. [Exp.] ... ne cum dicta essent [?] eximus. Finis.
Incipit (8th work): Epistola Pogii viri disertissimi ad clarissimum meum Cos[i]mam de Medicis. [Exp.] ... necessaria in oblivionem laberentur. Vale.
Incipit (7th work): Guarinus Veronensis impatiens quod Pogius scripserit Scipionem praestare Caesari ... [Exp.] ... et docti et diserti viri rerum scriptoris nomen et preconium consignari. Vale.
Incipit (6th work): Epistola Guarini Veronensis viri doctissimi ad illustrem dominum Leonellum Estensem. [Exp.] ... pro tua severitate se[nte]ntiam proferes. Vale.
Incipit (5th work): Comperatio P. Scipionis et C. Julii Cesaris edita per Pogium virum disertissimum. [Exp.] Vale. Florentie quarto Idus Aprilis.
Incipit (2nd work): Contentio de presidentia P. Scipionis, Hanibalis et Alexandri ex Luciano auctore greco latina facta per Johannem Aurispam. [Exp.] Et Alexander secundus sit et tertius si nidet Annibal [haec?] hic quidem spernendus est. Finis.
Incipit (4th work): Luciani philosophi libellus de virtute conquerente in quo introducitur Mercurius ... [Exp.] Virtus: Eternum lamentandum est. Ego nuda ac despecta abeo. Finis.
Work 20, with no attribution in the manuscript and listed as anonymous by Zacour-Hirsch, is by Ludovico Carbone (Stillman).
Incipit (3rd work): Francisci Petrarce clarissimi poete et hystoria singularis collatio facta inter Scipionem Romanum, Alexandrum Macedonem, Annibalem Penum et Pyrhum Epirotharum regem quis eorum prestantior fuerit. [Exp.] ... ipse Annibal. Aliquantoque facilius fuit. Finis.
No overall title in the text; title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Collation: I¹⁰, II⁴, III³, (IV-X)¹⁰, XI⁸, XII¹⁰ (Stillman).
Foliation: Paper, ii + 105 + i; [ii], 1-105, [i], contemporary foliation in black ink.
Layout: Written in a single column of 31 lines, frame-ruled in ink and lead.
Script: Written in one hand, in an Italian humanistic script.
Decoration: The initial at the start of the introduction to the first work is ornamented with green, pink, and blue (1r.); the initial at the start of thefirst work proper is ornamented with purple (1v.). Most works begin with a red initial; titles and names of characters in dialogues are written in red.
Binding: 18th-century vellum with a few worm holes.
Watermark: Several folios bear the watermark of a crown that is not included in Briquet's Les Filigranes (Stillman).
Origin: Written in Italy, between between 1459 and 1484 (Stillman).
Incipit (1st work): Eloquentissimi viri Leonardi Aretini prefatio in laudatione clarissimi viri Nannis Stroze equitis Florentini. [Exp.] ... honore et perpetua civium suorum commendatione [felicem?]. Finis.
Work 4, attributed to Lucian in the manuscript, is by Leon Battista Alberti (Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue).
Sold by William H. Allen, 1947.
Lancinus Curtius, Milan, 1484 (1r., 105r.); Dean Putnam Lockwood, Haverford, Pa., 1946. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9931765513503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3p55dh9v/manifest
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