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

London, British Library, Arundel 93

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000024 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

London, British Library, Arundel 93 See all items with this value

Date

[Flanders], copied between 1482 and 1485 See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Parchment See all items with this value

Type of script

"bastarda" ("hybrida formata according to Derolez's definition, see Derolez 1979, 91, in Bibliography). See all items with this value

Decoration

Yes (rich decoration); fols. 3r and 129r, coat of arms of Raphael de Marcatellis, Abbot of St. Bavon of Ghent, to whom the manuscript originally belonged.

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

fol. 160v: "Hoc volume(n) comparauit Raphael de Marcotellis Dei gra(tia) Ep(iscop)us Rosen(sis) Abbas Sancti Bauonis Iux(ta) Gandauu(m) et quoad potuit correxit Anno Domini 1485". The manuscript therefore belonged to Raphael de Marcatellis, Abbot of St. Bavon of Gand (1437-1508). See all items with this value

Notes

The manuscript contains also a collection of works by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini and Leonardo Bruni (fols. 112r-128v), and Cristoforo Buondelmonti's Liber insularum (fols. 129r-160v).
The manuscript is most probably a copy of the edition printed in Venice, 1476/1477, per Andream de Paltasichis, ISTC id00211000 (see Sideri 2020 below in Bibliography, p. 221).

Bibliography

- Derolez, Albert, The Library of Raphael de Marcatellis, Abbot of St. Bavon’s (Ghent, 1437–1508), Ghent, E. Story-Scientia, 1979, 90-94 and passim.
- C. Sideri, Per la fortuna di Diodoro Siculo fra XV e XVI secolo: la traduzione latina di Poggio Bracciolini e i primi volgarizzamenti. Con un saggio di edizione critica dei testi volgari, tutor Prof. R. Drusi, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, defended on 20 March 2020, 84-87, 221.