Epistolae ad familiares; Rime, Trionfi, etc., 1425 - 1475
Abstract
This is a mid-fifteenth century Italian manuscript, which contains various letters from Cicero or Pseudo-Cicero; two unidentified homilies; an index of Petrarch's sonnets, Petrarch's Canzoniere, poems 5 and 4 from his Rime disperse, and his Trionfi; and Pseudo-Seneca's De remediis fortuitorum bonorum liber. The scribe is identified as Petrus de Carbonibus, whose colophons recur frequently throughout the work and his son, Leonardus, who wrote the last leaf in Castro Massignani on 31 May 1456.
Dates
- Creation: 1425 - 1475
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Latin
Italian
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Custodial History
Written in Ferrara and Venice in 1432-1434 by Petrus de Carbonibus whose colophons recur frequently throughout the work (e.g. ff. 16r, 17v, 26v 38v, 41r, 50v, 56v, etc.) and by his son Leonardus, who wrote the last leaf in Castro Massignani on 31 May 1456. Probably from the collection of Gerardo Sagredo of Venice. (Albrizzi cat., Venice ca. 1746, ms. 118?), sold by Thorpe (his name in ink on recto of f. 1) in March 1821 to Richard Heber; his sale (London 1836, XI n. 613) to Thorpe (Cat. of mss., 1836, n. 269) who then sold it to Sir Thomas Phillipps (n. 8866 on f. i recto and f. 1r); his sale (London, 1935, n. 336, catalogue entry glued to folio i) to Maggs ("no. 103," in lead on folio i recto). Acquired by Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate, census no. on f. I recto).
Authors
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Petrarch (1304-1374)
Other related names
- de Carbonibus, Petrus, scribe
- de Carbonibus, Leonardus, scribe
- Sagredo, Gerardo, former owner
- Heber, Richard, former owner
- Phillipps, Sir Thomas, former owner
- Maggs Bros., bookseller
- 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 5. On front cover on a torn paper label: "...d[?] 753." On spine in ink: "LXXXIII/ ca 4[?]." On spine in ink: "LXXXIII/ ca 4[?]." Remnants of foliation for individual works. On fol. 106v five lines of Latin in later hand giving various readings for the letters SPQR. May be MS 118 in Albrizzi cat., Venice ca. 1746 in possession of Gerardo Sagredo collection. The scribe, Petrus de Carbonibus, frequently dates the end of his work with dates occurring after end of each text. In the letters that include Greek text, a space has been left for the Greek to be added; usually that space remains blank, although in a few cases the Greek has been added by a later hand. Text breaks off at bottom of fol. 218v
Paper support (watermarks: similar to Briquet Aigle 80, Briquet Basilic 2665, Briquet Cerf 3296, an unidentified stag, and an unidentified letter S), ff. ii (modern paper bifolilum) + 218 + vi (contemporary paper) + ii (modern paper bifolilum).
Venice, ca. 1720. Olive-paneled roan of the type made exclusively for Gerardo Sagnedo. Gold-tooled Venetian arms added soon after, consist of an oval escutcheon quartered by a curved pale and fesse with gold tooled title on spine: M. T. CIC./ EPISTOLAE//PETRARCA/ RIME. On front cover on a torn paper label: "...d[?] 753." On spine in ink: "LXXXIII/ ca 4[?]".
ii+218+viii; 309 x 207 mm bound to 316 x 225 mm
Fols. 1r-106v: single column, thirty-nine to forty-six lines, unruled with single vertical bounding lines in lead or hardpoint, right bounding line either left out completely or else ignored, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 226 x 153 mm
Fere-humanistic script, written by Petrus de Carbonibus (ff. 1-216) and his son Leonardus.
Two eight-line pen and ink initials and one nine-line pen and ink initial; one- to two-line black ink initials begin each of Cicero's letters, occasionally the initial letter is omitted with only a tiny guide letter visible in margin. In the Canzoniere, spaces have been left for initials, but not filled in. Text is accompanied by marginalia and interlinear glosses in several hands throughout.
Modern foliation in ink in top right corner recto, fols. 1r-106r, some foliation duplicated in pencil; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, fols. 107r-218r; foliation in ink, upper right recto, numbering one through ninety-two for fols. 127r-218r; separate foliation in ink, lower right recto, numbering one through seventy-one for fols. 127r-197v.
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