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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2220

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 105

Title:

Diodori Siculi Historiarum Priscarum /

Bibliotheca historica

Author:

Diodorus, Siculus

Diodorus Siculus WIKIDATA

Place:

Rome?, Italy

Rome TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

1450?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 165 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 287 x 200 (210 x 120) mm bound to 300 x 207 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Campana, Giampietro, marchese di Cavelli, 1808-1880

Giampietro Campana WIKIDATA

Philipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Robert Garrett WIKIDATA

Note:

Incipit: “Diodori Siculi Historiarum Priscarum a Poggio in latinum traducti incipit Liber Primus in qvo hec continentvr Totius operis prohemium ... Liber Primvs Magnas merito gratias rerum scriptoribus homines debent...”
Explicit: “Quibus de rebus suo loco scribetur a nobis. Explicit Liber VI.”
Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (fol. 2r).
Brief annotations and topical headings in the margins. Text preceded by the translator's prologue with a dedication to Pope Nicholas V (fol. 1r-2r). Title also on spine.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (contemporary) + 165 ; catchwords for most quires ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 31 long lines per page.
Decoration: The text opens on fol. 1r with a 6-line gold initial N with white vine-stem decoration on blue, green, and pink, and one gold carrot projecting into the left margin; erased arms at the foot of the page surrounded by a wreath, amid white vine-stem decoration as above, growing from a golden urn. Books I–VI each open with a 5-line gold initial with white vine-stem decoration on blue...
Origin: Produced in Rome shortly after 1450. Copied by one of the translator's scribes, probably in Rome.
The erased arms on fol. 1r may possibly be those of Decio Azzolini (1549 or 1550–1587), of Rome. Intermediate provenance unknown. In the collection of the Marchese Giovanni Pietro Campana. Sold in 1860 by Sotheby's London. Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired the manuscript, possibly from booksellers Thomas and William Boone. Sold by Sotheby's in 1896, then by J. & J. Leighton, and Giuseppe Martini...

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Clasps

Wooden boards

Headbands

Parchment (Paper)

Blind tooled bindings

decorated initials

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

World history

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99113344833506421

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Holding Institution:

Princeton University