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

Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 339

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000003 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

Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. lat. 339 See all items with this value

Date

1st codicological unit: [France, second half of the 15th century, see below Note]
2nd codicological unit: [Florence, 1460s-1460s). See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

295 x 216
I + 227 (223), II' (the flyleaves are made of parchment and are original)
The manuscript is a composite.
1st codicological unit: Barb[α], fols. 1-147.
2nd codicological unit: Barb[β], fols. 148-223. See all items with this value

Type of script

Barb[α]: French 'bastarda'
Barb[β]: humanist cursive here attributed to Niccolò di Giampiero Della Fonte. See all items with this value

Scribe

Niccolò di Giampiero Della Fonte (attributed) See all items with this value

Annotations

Barb[α]: a few corrections by the main scribe
Barb[β]: numerous "notabilia" in red ink, written by the scribe Niccolò di Giampiero Della Fonte. See all items with this value

Decoration

Simple initials in blue and red ink (they are homogeneous in the entire manuscript, therefore they were added once the manuscript had already been assembled)

Incipit

Fol. 1r: dedication letter to Pope Nicholas V, inc.: "Nullus antea quantum vis praeclarus rerum scriptor fuit".

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Explicit

Fol. 223v: "barbaris plures ex eis tenuerunt. Quibus de rebus suo loco scribitur a nobis. FINIS. DIODORI SICULI HISTORIARUM PRISCARVM A DOCTISSIMO VIRO POGGIO FLORENTINO IN LATINUM TRADUCTI LIBER SEXTUS ET ULTIMUS FOELICITER EXPLICIT".

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Notes

The manuscript was probably assembled in France, since the three original parchment flyleaves are documents written in France and dating to the second half of the 15th century

Bibliography

- C. Sideri, La fortuna di Diodoro Siculo fra Quattrocento e Cinquecento. Edizione critica dei volgarizzamenti della Biblioteca storica, libri I-II, De Gruyter (BzRP), Berlin, 2022, 21.
- P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, London/Leiden, Brill, 1963-1997, vol. 2, 144.