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Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Magl. XXIII 46

Item

Manuscript copy id

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Translator

Anonymous See all items with this value

Work

Vernacular translation of Diodorus Siculus, books 1-2 (divided into three books) See all items with this value

Shelfmark

Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Magl. XXIII 46 See all items with this value

Date

[1460s-1480s] See all items with this value

Place

[Florence] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

236 x 166
II + 101 + I' (101 ruled but blank)
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Foliation

Folios are numbered in pencil in the lower left margin.

Collation

11 quires: I(8), II-III(10), IV(8), V-VII(10), VIII(8), IX-X(10), XI(8-1)

Type of script

Hybrid script. A Florentine 'bastarda' with some influence both of the 'mercantesca' and of the humanist script. See all items with this value

Annotations

Numerous marginal annotations by the main scribe, written in red ink; they are mostly in Latin, sometimes in the vernacular. They often express the need of checking "another exemplar" or "another Greek manuscript", see e.g. fols. 51v, 53v.
A later hand (late 15th-/early 16th-century) wrote another series of marginal annotations and a couple of corrections to the text. See all items with this value

Decoration

Absent

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

On the front pastedown there are two printed labels. The first reads "Francisci Caesaris Augusti munificientia"; the second "Gaddi 899" (ancient provenance and shelfmark). At fol. Ir there are two ancient shelfmarks: "G. 898", corrected in "G. 899", and "D 46".

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History of the manuscript

The manuscript belonged to the Florentine Gaddi Library (the provenance is indicated on the front pastedown: "Gaddi 899"). In 1755, the Gaddi Library was acquired by the Granduca di Toscana Francesco II (see above the label on the pastedown) and divided between the Laurenziana, Archivio delle Riformagioni and the Magliabechiana. This manuscript passed to the Magliabechiana.

Incipit

fol. 1r: "Meritamente sono obligati gli huomini di douere rendere grandissime gratie agli scriptori".

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Explicit

fol. 100v: "e scripse molte altre chose dindia delle quali inna(n)zi no(n) sera auto cognitione alcuna".

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Bibliography

- 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, 253-255.
- Targioni Tozzetti, Giovanni (ed.), Catalogo generale dei manoscritti Magliabechiani ordinato per classi, 11 vol., [manuscript catalogue, manoscritto, available in reproduction in the Manuscript reading room of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, with shelfmark Sala Mss., Cat. 45].

Record last updated

22 October 2024