Ms. codex. Title devised by cataloger. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Collation: Parchment, fol. iv (i-iii later paper; iv contemporary parchment) + 110 + iii (later paper) ; 1-1110 ; catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire, mostly trimmed away. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page. Secundo folio: Hi tantum movere... Script: Written in a humanistic cursive in brown ink with red rubrics. Layout: 1 column, 25 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind. Decoration: 3-line white-vine initial in gold on colors with white-vine borders in colors in inner and upper margin, fol. 1; initial of similar size and syle, without border, on fol. 87; Manilius' book 1 begins with 2-line blue capital, fol.19v. Binding: 17th-century vellum over pasteboard, edges mottled red, Barrois and Ashburnham labels on spine, 17th-century handwritten title on spine, "M[an]lii/Astron/omicum/66." Housed in tan cloth clamshell box. Origin: Written in Ferrara, Italy, in 1461 by Pellegrino Agli of Ferrara (see fol. 110v). Provenance 1: In a contemporary hand on front flyleaf: "Versus quos Ci[cer]o allegat in libro de fato./ Sunt qui in fortunae iam casibus omnia ponant/ Et mundum credant nullo rectore moveri/ Natura volvente vices et mensis et anni." In a slightly later hand -- possibly that of Pierre Pithout -- the attribution of the verses to Juvenal (Satura XIII, ll. 86-88). Greek annotations in an early... Provenance 2: Joseph Scaliger wrote to Pithou about this manuscript in 1573, asking to study it for his forthcoming edition (Lettres françaises inédites, pp. 21 and 26). Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 376 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover. Call number: MS q Med.20. Former call number: MS G.38.46. Byname: Codex Pithoeanus of Manilius. Bibliography: "Agli, Pellegrino," Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Rome), 401-402; R. Bentley, ed., M. Manilii Astronomicon (London, 1739); Seymour de Ricci, "A Handlist of Latin Classical Manuscripts in American Libraries," Philological Quarterly, I (1922): 105; F. Flamini, Pellegrino Agli, umanista poeta e confilosofo del Ficino (Pisa, 1893); H.W. Garrod, Manili Astronomicon (Oxford...
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