Vernacular Culture and Greek Texts in Renaissance Florence: a Database of Florentine Vernacularizations of Greek texts (c. 1460-1500)

Augsburg, Staats-und Stadtbibliothek, 2° Cod. 100

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000001 See all items with this value

Translator

Poggio Bracciolini (Poggius Florentinus) See all items with this value

Work

Diodori Siculi Historiarum priscarum <libri> a Poggio in Latinum traducti See all items with this value

Shelfmark

Augsburg, Staats-und Stadtbibliothek, 2° Cod. 100 See all items with this value

Date

15th century (second half) See all items with this value

Seen

No

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

290 x 215
II + 126 (126 blank)
13 quires: I-IX(10), X (8), XI-XII (10), XIII (10-2) See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist cursive See all items with this value

Scribe

Three hands, a) fols. 1-97v line 28, 99r; b) fols. 97r line 29-98v; c) fols. 99v-125v. See all items with this value

Annotations

Corrections and "notabilia" by Johannes Mendel (see Marks of ownership) See all items with this value

Decoration

Titles and "argumenta" of single books in red ink; pen-flourished initials in red or blue ink

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

On the front paste-down, ancient note of ownership "Io(hann)is Mendel". The same hand also wrote the title of the work, wrongly attributing it to Leonardo Bruni ("Libri historiarum Dioderi [sic] Siculi per Leon[ardum] Aretinum facti Latini"). At fol. 1r, a 17th-century wrote "Ad bibl[iothecam] aul(icam) Eystettensem". See all items with this value

Incipit

fol. 1r: Dedication letter to Pope Nicholas V, "Prohemium in libros Diodori Siculi quos Pogius Florentinus Latinos fecit ad Nicolarum quintum pontificem maximum".

Inc.: "Nullus antea quintumuis preclarus rerum scriptor fuit".

 

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Explicit

fol. 125v: "barbaris plures ex eis tenuerunt. Quibus de rebus suo loco scribetur a nobis. τέλος".

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Notes

Manuscript seen in digitization

Bibliography

- Cortesi, Mariarosa, "Una pagina di umanesimo ad Eichstätt", Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven un Bibliotheken 64 (1984), 227-260.
- Spilling, Herrad (ed.), Handschriftenkataloge der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, vol. 2, Die Handschriften 2 °Cod 1–100, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1978, 162-163.

Record last updated

21 October 2024