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

Oxford, Balliol College, 124

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000028 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

Oxford, Balliol College, 124 See all items with this value

Seen

No

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist script See all items with this value

Scribe

John Free (c. 1430-1464/1465), English humanist and fellow of the Balliol College, Oxford. See all items with this value

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

On the front pastedown: "Contenta: in primis Cosmographia mundi cum naturis arborum plantarum specierum diversarum de manu et studio magistri Johannis Free quondam socii aule sive collegii de Balliolo Oxon(iensi) et postea doctor professus in medicinis in universitate Padewe. Item epistole ad dominum papam Paulum de sex libris Tehodori Siculi poetice fabulando more gentilium. Ex dono venerabilis viri Willelmi Worcestre quodam scolaris aule Cervine de beneficiis domini Johannis Fastolffe militis de Northfolchia collegio Ballioli in Oxonia". Therefore, after being copied by John Free, the manuscript was owned by William Worcester (c. 1415-1482), fellow of the Balliol College. See all items with this value

Notes

Manuscript seen in digitization.
The manuscript contains also an abbreviation of Pliny's Natural History (fols. 1r-150v). Bracciolini's translation is at fols. 151r-242v: it is not copied in full, but rather heavily summarised.

Bibliography

Mynors, Roger Aubrey Baskerville (ed.), Catalogue of the manuscripts of Balliol College Oxford, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1963, 102-103.

Digitized copy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/balliolarchivist/albums/with/72157631111034196