Boston Public Library, MS q Med.20

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DS ID:

DS3490

Shelfmark:

MS q Med.20

Title:

Astronomica /

Author:

Manilius, Marcus

Marcus Manilius WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Agli, Pellegrino, 1440-1468

Pellegrino Agli WIKIDATA

Place:

Ferrara

Ferrara TGN

Date:

1461.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 111 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 191 x 126 (135 x 75) mm, in box 23 cm

Former Owner(s):

Grimani, Domenico, 1460-1523

Domenico Grimani WIKIDATA

Grimani, Marino, approximately 1488-1546

Marino Grimani WIKIDATA

Pithou, Pierre, 1539-1596

Pierre Pithou WIKIDATA

Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de, 1798-1870

Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry WIKIDATA

Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855

Joseph Barrois WIKIDATA

Silva, Ercole, 1756-1840

Ercole Silva WIKIDATA

Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878

Bertram Ashburnham, 4th Earl of Ashburnham WIKIDATA

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

Sydney Cockerell WIKIDATA

Note:

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...

Keyword:

Armorial bookplates

humanistic scripts

Inscriptions

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Vellum bindings

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Autographs

Astrology, Roman

Didactic poetry, Latin

Medicine, Greek and Roman--Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444847

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/astronomiconlibe00mani/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library