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

Cortona, Biblioteca del Comune e dell'Accademia Etrusca

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000013 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

Cortona, Biblioteca del Comune e dell'Accademia Etrusca See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist cursive See all items with this value

Annotations

"Notabilia" and corrections by the main scribe. He has extensively collated the manuscript with another copy of the work, most probably one of the two printed editions respectively issued in 1493 and 1496 (ISTC il00328000, ISTC id00213000). See all items with this value

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

fol. 1r: "Libreria comunale di Cortona codice cartaceo, N° 241", written by a 18th or 19th-century hand. See all items with this value

Notes

The manuscript was already owned by the Accademia Etrusca in 1747.

Bibliography

- Caldelli, Elisabetta/Gallori, Francesca/Pantarotto, Marina, et al. (edd.), Manoscritti medievali della provincia di Arezzo. Cortona, Firenze, Sismel/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011, 87, tav. CXLIX.