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

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5689

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000030 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

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 5689 See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Parchment See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist book hand See all items with this value

Scribe

Sinibaldus C (attributed by A. C. de la Mare) See all items with this value

Decoration

Yes; fol. 1r coat of arms of the French Royal house, perhaps added on a previous coat of arms (Aragonese shield?)

Bibliography

- De Marinis, Tammaro, La Biblioteca napoletana dei Re d’Aragona, 4 vol., Milano, Höepli, 1947–1952, vol. 2, 66
- 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. 2, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1985, 393–600, at p. 537

Digitized copy

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90658379

Record last updated

21 October 2024