Indiana University Bloomington, Poole 14
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS582
- Shelfmark:
- Poole 14
- Title:
- De arte metrica
Laurentius Quglielmus Tij, De arte metrica, De pedibus
Laurentius Quaglielmus Ty Iulio Lutio Mancino, S. P. D.,
Letter - Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni
- Scribe:
- Urbano, son of Giovanni Jacopo degli Irbani
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 1495; s. XV(ex); 1485-1499
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Contemporary binding of thin wooden boards sewn on 3 double thongs, covered with tanned leather, (probably goatskin) multiple blind ruled into concentric compartments stamped with repeated impressions of small tools around a central oval embossed plaquette showing a classical male profile facing right, 4 metal bosses on each cover, 3 (of 4) metal clasps and catches, edges gilt and...
Figurative details, ff. 130: First page with 4-line illuminated initial in colours and gold with full border of flowering plant stems and gold bezants including a coat-of-arms within a wreath.
Other decoration, ff. 130: Small initials in red or blue; heading and opening words in gold and blue capitals.
Script, ff. 130: Humanistic Cursive.
Layout, ff. 130: Collation: i#^7# [of 8, blank I canceled], ii–viii#^8 + blank leaves# (fols. 64–130), with traces of contemporary leaf signatures; faint brown ruling, apparently in ink, 16 lines, written-space 94 mm. by 52 mm.; written in black ink.
Watermarks, ff. 130: Briquet 3670, or variant. Pair of scissors. - Former Owner(s):
- A member of the Bernardi family of Florence, with their arms on fol. 1r (Rietstap 1884, I, p. 179), flanked by the initials ‘C’ and ‘B’; L. S. Olschki, Bulletin mensuel 51 (January 1905), no. 1291.
A member of the Bernardi family of Florence, with their arms on fol. 1r (Rietstap 1884, I, p. 179), flanked by the initials ‘C’ and ‘B’; L. S. Olschki, Bulletin mensuel 51 (January 1905), no. 1291.
Ellis of Bond Street, their cat. 1919, at £63; Ernst F. Detterer (1888-1947); bought from Detterer’s estate in 1948 by George A. Poole, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
Ellis of Bond Street, their cat. 1919, at £63; Ernst F. Detterer (1888-1947); bought from Detterer’s estate in 1948 by George A. Poole, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958.
- Associated Agent(s):
- Giulio Lucio Mancini, recipient of letter
- Note:
- Manuscript note: The binding is notable, for it has a very early example of an embossed classical plaquette, probably based on an ancient Roman medal. Such plaquettes have been listed and classified by Anthony Hobson. The example used here is no. 9 in Hobson 1989, p. 218, hitherto known on four bindings, the earliest of which is on an incunable in the Vatican, printed in Florence before 18...
Bibliography: Faye and Bond 1962, p. 178; Kristeller 1990, p. 220.
ff. 130: Coat of Arms within a wreath, flanked by the initials "C" and "B". Florentine family of Bernardi. The words ac etiam ligatusin the colophon indicate that the scribe is also the book binder, an extremely unusual notation.
ff. 130: Latin.
ff. 1r-62v: Scribe’s colophon: Transcriptus fuit iste liber ac etiam ligatus per urbanum Ioannis Iacobi de Urbanis die .v. Novembris anno domini 14.95 This tells that it was copied and also bound by Urbano, [son] of Giovanni Jacopo degli Urbani, on 5 November 1495.
Incipit, ff. 1r-62v: Edippus.
Explicit, ff. 1r-62v: Sex sunt pedes quibus precipue.
ff. 63r-63v: The manuscript closes with the scribe’s colophon: Transcriptus fuit iste liber ac etiam ligatus per urbanum Ioannis Iacobi de Urbanis die .v. Novembris anno domini 14.95 This tells that it was copied and also bound by Urbano, [son] of Giovanni Jacopo degli Urbani, on 5 November 1495.
Incipit, ff. 63r-63v: esse senserit Vale, FINIS.
Explicit, ff. 63r-63v: Non me preterit disertissime Iuli spes unica Luciorum. - Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/Poole14_40
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Poole14_40/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
