Princeton University, Garrett MS. 105.

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2220

Shelfmark:

Garrett MS. 105.

Title:

Diodori Siculi Historiarum Priscarum /

Place:

Rome?, Italy

Rome TGN

Date:

1450?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

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

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...

Keyword:

Blind tooled bindings

illuminated manuscripts

Headbands

Clasps

Wooden boards

decorated initials

Parchment (Paper)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

World history

Institutional Record:

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

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/746d3629-62c9-4fa1-adb7-28fa73b0ef6d/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University