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

Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. lat. 1135

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000029 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

Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. lat. 1135 See all items with this value

Date

[Rome? third quarter of the 15th century] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Parchment See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist cursive See all items with this value

Scribe

The scribe has been identified with an anonymous scribe who used to sign his manuscripts by adding "P." or "Finis. P." in the end, active in Rome, and later in Florence for the bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci (see f. 158r: "Finis P."). On the scribe see de la Mare 1985, 525-526 (below in Bibliography); for the identification see Sideri 2022, 25. The same scribe also wrote another copy of this work, Siena, Biblioteca Comunale e degli Intronati, K V 18. See all items with this value

Decoration

Yes; fol. 1r, coat of arms of the Maffei family.

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

On the original front flyleaf: "Ex Biblioteca Ducum ab Altaemps". The manuscript thus belonged to the Altemps library in Rome. In 1690 it passed to the library of cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, future Pope Alexander VIII, from whom it passed to the Vatican Library. See all items with this value

Bibliography

- de la Mare, Albinia Catherine, New research on humanistic scribes in Florence, in: Garzelli, Annarosa, Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440–1525. Un primo censimento, vol. 1, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1985, 393–600, at pp. 525-526.
- 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, 25.

Digitized copy

https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott.lat.1135?ling=it

Record last updated

21 October 2024