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Bergamo, Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai, MA 527

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000002 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

Bergamo, Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai, MA 527 See all items with this value

Date

1471 (fol. 134: "Finitus XX° Maii anno 1471") [Nothern Italy] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

330 x 233
II + 136 (134) + II'
14 quires: I-XIII(10), XIV(6) See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist cursive See all items with this value

Annotations

The manuscript is annotated by four hands: a) the main scribe added "notabilia" in red ink; b) a humanist hand added numerous corrections and marginal variants; c) a later humanist hand (15th century ex.) integrated some textual lacunae (e.g. fols. 17r, 93v, 116r); d) another humanist hand (15th century ex.) added 6 "notabilia" at fols. 129v-130r-v. See all items with this value

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

On the spine of the binding there is a label with an ancient shelfmark: "Gabin. Γ Fila VI 1". See all items with this value

Incipit

Fol. 1r, Dedication letter to Pope Nicholas V, inc.: "Nullus antea quantumvis preclarus rerum scriptor fuit".

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Explicit

Fol. 134v: "...barbaris plures ex eis tenuerunt quibus de rebus suo loco scribetur a nobis. Finitus XX° Maii anno 1471".

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Notes

The manuscript belonged to Giuseppe Beltramelli (1734-1816), an erudite and bibliophile from Bergamo.
The type of humanist script and the watermark (Fleur similar to Briquet 6597 and 6599) suggest that the manuscript was written in Northern Italy.

Bibliography

Manoscritti datati d’Italia. I manoscritti datati della Biblioteca civica Angelo Mai e delle altre Biblioteche di Bergamo, Firenze, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2003, 66.

Record last updated

21 October 2024