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

Münich, Universitätsbibliothek, 2° Cod. 553

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000025 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

Münich, Universitätsbibliothek, 2° Cod. 553 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

Decoration

Yes; fol. 3r, space for coat of arms blank

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

Fol. 1r: "Iste liber est Johannis Trost(er)". The manuscript thus originally belonged to the German humanist Johannes Tröster († 1484/1485 Regensburg), which in 1481 gave it do the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ingolstadt (see fol. fol. 1r, below Tröser's note of ownership: "Johannes Tröster doctor decretorum prepositus Muticensis canonicus Ratisponensism dono dedit hunc librum facultati artium Ingolstatensi. Anno domini Mcccclxxxi prima octobris"). Fols. 2r and 217r: ex libris of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ingolstadt. See all items with this value

Bibliography

Daniel, Natalia/Schott, Gerhard/Zahn, Peter, Die lateinischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek München. Die Handschriften aus der Folioreihe, Hälfte 1, vol. 1, Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1979, 76.