Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, 618
Item
- Manuscript copy id
- MC0000005 See all items with this value
- Work
- Diodori Siculi Historiarum priscarum <libri> a Poggio in Latinum traducti See all items with this value
- Shelfmark
- Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, 618 See all items with this value
- Date
- [Naples, post 1476-1477] See all items with this value
- Seen
- Yes
- Material
- Parchment See all items with this value
- Dimensions and Structure
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334 x 231
II (IV) + 210 (208) + II' (fols. 194 and 208 ruled but blank)
21 quires: I-XXI(10) See all items with this value - Type of script
- Humanist book hand See all items with this value
- Scribe
- Gianrinaldo Mennio (attributed by A. C. de la Mare) See all items with this value
- Decoration
- Rich decoration
- Illuminator
- Master of the London Pliny (attributed by Armstrong) See all items with this value
- Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks
- On the recto of the first front flyleaf there is the following note: "Ex Bibliotheca Andreae Matthaei Aquaviva Hadrianorum Ducis in Bibliothecam Regiam Neapoli a Ferdinando I Rege traductus, deinde in Biblothecam Regiam Parisiensem a Carolo VIII Galliarum Rege, Demum a Ludovico XV Galliarum Rege Benedicto XIV P(ontifice) M(aximo) D. D." See all items with this value
- Notes
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The manuscript contains also Tacitus, Germania. It is a copy of the edition printed in Venice, 1476 (or 14779), by Andreas de Paltasichis, ISTC id00211000.
It was copied for cardinal Giovanni d’Aragona (1456-1485), son of king Ferrante I of Naples. It was afterwards acquired by the condottiero and humanist Andrea Matteo Acquaviva d’Aragona (1458-1529). It passed then to the Aragonese collection and in the Royal library of France. King Louis XV gave it as a gift it to the Bolognese pope Benedetto XIV. - 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, 21-22.
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Diodori Siculi Historiarum priscarum <libri> a Poggio in Latinum traducti | Latin Translation Resource |
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