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. 1813

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000040 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. 1813 See all items with this value

Date

[Rome/Siena, 1450s/1460s] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Parchment See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

328 X 229
II + 180 + II'
18 quires: I-XVIII(10) See all items with this value

Type of script

Humanist book-hand See all items with this value

Decoration

Yes; fol. 1r, coat of arms of the Piccolomini family

Illuminator

Gioacchino de' Gigantibus (see Ruysschaert 1968) See all items with this value

Notes

The manuscript originally belonged either to Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (future Pope Pius II) or to his nephew Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini.

Bibliography

- Ruysschaert, José, "Miniaturistes «romains» sous Pie II", in: Maffei, Domenico (ed.), Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Papa Pio II. Atti del convegno per il quinto centenario dalla morte e altri scritti, Siena, Accademia degli Intronati, 1968, 245–282, at 271.
- Sideri, Cecilia, La fortuna di Diodoro Siculo fra Quattrocento e Cinquecento. Edizione critica dei volgarizzamenti della Biblioteca storica, libri I-II, De Gruyter (BzRP), Berlin, 2022, 28.

Digitized copy

https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.1813