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

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, 619

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000006 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

Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, 619 See all items with this value

Date

Italy [second half of the 15th century] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Parchment See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

262 x 165
fols. III (II) + 182 (181) + I'
18 quires: I-XVII(10); XVIII(12) See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist book hand See all items with this value

Decoration

Golden initials on a square decorated with white vine-stems on a blue, green and pink background

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

On the first front flyleaf recto the librarian Lodovico Montefani Caprara (1709-1785) wrote: "Cod. num.° 770. Aula - II - A" and "Ex libris Joannis Garzoni Bonon(iensis)". See all items with this value

Notes

The manuscript belonged to the Bolognese humanist and physician Giovanni Garzoni (1419-1505).

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, 22.