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

Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, K V 18

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000035 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

Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, K V 18 See all items with this value

Date

[Rome, second half of the 15th century] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

286 x 218
I + 160 + I'
16 quires: I-XVI(10) 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, 26. The same scribe also wrote another copy of this work, Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Vaticana, Ott. lat. 1135. See all items with this value

Annotations

Notabilia in red ink by the main scribe 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.