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

Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 67.7

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000014 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

Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 67.7 See all items with this value

Date

[Florence, 1470s] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Parchment See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist cursive (formal) See all items with this value

Scribe

Niccolò di Giampiero Della Fonte See all items with this value

Annotations

The ms. is annotated both by the scribe and by the humanist Bartolomeo Della Fonte (il Fonzio), brother of Niccolò Della Fonte See all items with this value

Decoration

yes; fol. 1r, coat of arms of the Florentine Sassetti family

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

On the original front flyleaf (recto): "FRANCISCUS SASSETTUS THOMAE FILIUS FACIUNDUM CURAVIT | SORS PLACIDA MIHI», ex libris of the library of the Florentine banker Francesco Sassetti (1421-1490). See all items with this value

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, 23.

Digitized copy

https://tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/plutei/id/1328425/rec/1