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, Vat. lat. 1811

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000038 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, Vat. lat. 1811 See all items with this value

Date

Florence, 1461 (fol. 188v: "scriptus autem fuit dyodorus iste de anno domini .m cccclxi°. pontificatus sanctissimi in christo patris et domini domini [sic] pii divina providentia pape secundi anno quarto manu propria mei gherardi del ciriagio civis florentini in civite [sic] florentie. laus deo. amen). See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Parchment See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

327 x 222
II + 188 + I'
19 quires: I-XVIII(10), XIX(8) See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist book-hand See all items with this value

Scribe

Gherardo del Ciriagio (see above subscription at fol. 188v), Florentine scribe active between the 1440s and the 1470s (Moschella 2000, with previous bibliography). See all items with this value

Illuminator

Francesco di Antonio del Chierico 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 496-498.
- Garzelli, Annarosa, "Le immagini, gli autori, i destinatari", in Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento, 1440-1525. Un primo censimento, ed. Garzelli, Annarosa, vol. I, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 5-391, 142.
- Moschella, Maurizio, "Del Ciriagio, Gherardo", in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 53 (2000), 619-620.

Digitized copy

https://spotlight.vatlib.it/it/overview/catalog/Vat_lat_1811