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, Urb. lat. 431

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000037 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, Urb. lat. 431 See all items with this value

Date

[Florence, early 1470s, before 1474] See all items with this value

Material

Parchment See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

340 x 233
III + 155 + I'
16 quires: 1 + I-II(10), III(8), IV-VII(10), VIII(8), IX-XIII(10), XIV(8), XV-XVI(10) See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist book hand See all items with this value

Scribe

Anonymous scribe who worked in Florence for the bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci (he copied number of manuscripts for Federico da Montefeltro). See de la Mare 1985, 463, 542-544. See all items with this value

Annotations

Notabilia by the scribe; corrections by the humanist Lilio Libelli Tifernate (c. 1417/18-1486). See all items with this value

Decoration

Yes; fol. 2r, coat of arms of Federico da Montefeltro, sided by the letters "C. L.", probably a mistake for "C. F.", "Comes Federicus" (this would mean that Federico was not yet Duke, therefore the mansucript should be dated before 1474).

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 463, 542-544.
- Sideri, Cecilia, "Un episodio di filologia umanistica: le emendazioni di Lilio Tifernate al Diodoro Siculo latino di Poggio Bracciolini nel manoscritto Urb. lat. 431", in ‘In limine’. Postille e marginalia nella tradizione letteraria italiana, ed. by A. Capobasso, G. Cirone and D. Raffini, Rome, Bulzoni, 2019, pp. 41-58.

Digitized copy

https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Urb.lat.431