Treatise on the gods, commentary on Virgil's Aeneid, 1500 - 1525
Abstract
This is an early sixteenth-century Italian manuscript by Domizio Calderino, which includes two texts: a treatise on the gods and a commentary on Virgil's Aeneid. The manuscript is made of five or six different paper stocks, one of which is of a smaller size. The initials of the first words in each text division are in large majuscules outside the text block.
Dates
- Creation: 1500 - 1525
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Latin
Custodial History
Written in Italy in the early 16th century. Early inscription in top margin of f. 1r "Parrhasii" may be an ownership note, but does not appear to be in the hand of Parrasio. C. Tristano, in her La Biblioteca di un umanista calabrese: Aulo Giano Parrasio (1988), does not list this text among the books of Parrasio's library. Early provenance unknown. In the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (n. 1292 in ink in upper margin of f. 1r and in lower margin under his early stamp "Middle Hill," in inner margin, in same hand, in ink: "old no. 29"). Listed in his 1837 Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum among manuscripts "Ex Bibliotheca Derschau de Nuremberg." The collection of Hans Albrecht von Derschau was sold at Nuremburg by the firm of Schmidmer from 1 August to 29 September 1825 (Phillipps Studies III, 1954). Purchased by Howard L. Goodhart.
Authors
- Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478
Other related names
- von Derschau, Hans Albrecht, former owner
- Phillipps, Sir Thomas, former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, donor
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Presented by Howard Lehman Goodhart to Bryn Mawr College in 1951.
Physical Description
Previously Goodhart 61
Paper support, (watermarks: similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14430; Briquet Tête de boeuf 15113; Briquet Fleur à sept pétals, 6570, 6565; Briquet Lettres assemblées "P", 9608), ff. ii (modern paper bifolium, i=pastedown) + 398 + i (contemporary paper) + ii (modern paper bifolium, ii=pastedown)
Rebound in dark brown twentieth-century quarter calf with tan cloth boards. Gold-tooled title and Phillipps number on spine: "Parrhasius/ In Virgilium" and at the lower edge: "1292."
i+399+i; 316 x 218 mm 290 x 197 mm bound to 325 x 240 mm
Single column, thirty-one to thirty-five lines, fols. 1-184 and 221-399 with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines in hard point, fols. 185-220 with single vertical bounding lines in ink.
Humanistic cursive, written by a single scribe.
Initials and first words in text divisions in epigraphic majuscules.
Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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