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

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Nouvelles Acquisitions Latines (NAL) 1200

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000031 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, Nouvelles Acquisitions Latines (NAL) 1200 See all items with this value

Date

[Northern Italy], February 1463 (f. 163v: "Finitus XV februarii 1463"). 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

Annotations

The manuscript carries a few annotations by the Lombard humanist Pier Candido Decembrio (1399-1477); for the attribution see Sideri 2020, 95-96; Sideri 2022, 25-26. See all items with this value

Notes

The manuscript was probably copied in Northern Italy (Lombardia?), as suggested by the type of script and by the watermark, similar to Briquet 6660, a typically Lombard watermark.

Bibliography

- 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, 25-26.
- 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, 95-96.

Digitized copy

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52508466s