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

Princeton, University Library, Garrett 105

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000033 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

Princeton, University Library, Garrett 105 See all items with this value

Date

[Rome, c. 1449, ante 1453] 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 by A. C de la Mare with a trusted scribe who worked for Poggio in Rome in the 1440s, and has copied several manuscripts of his works (see Sideri 2024 below in Bibliography) See all items with this value

Annotations

Several annotations and corrections autograph by Poggio; a few annotations by Giovanni Tortelli, first librarian of the Vatican Library; a few other annotations by 'Pomponian hands' (for the annotations on the manuscript see Sideri 2020). See all items with this value

Decoration

Yes; f. 1r coat of arms of the Altieri Family, with a partially erased inscription (illegible letters are represented by a dot): ". AN.ONIVS ALTE.IVS". The manuscript was owned by the Pomponian Roman humanist Marco Antonio Altieri (1450–1532).

Bibliography

- Sideri, Cecilia, "Correzioni, ritocchi e marginalia d'autore nella tradizione: nuove schede minime per Poggio Bracciolini", Studi Medievali 65/1 (2024), pp. 191-223, Plates. I-VII.
- Sideri, Cecilia, Per la tipologia del manoscritto annotato: il caso dei marginalia autografi di Poggio Bracciolini alla sua traduzione di Diodoro Siculo, in ‘Imago librorum’. Mille anni di forme del libro in Europa. Atti del convegno Rovereto-Trento 24-26 maggio 2017, ed. by E. Barbieri, introduction by Frédéric Barbier, Florence, Olschki, 2021, pp. 257-327.
- Skemer, Don C. (ed.), Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, 2 vol., Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2013, 233-235.

Digitized copy

https://dpul.princeton.edu/msstreasures/catalog/cv43p163g

Record last updated

21 October 2024