Gasparino Barzizza manuscript, 1400 - 1499
Contents
The following notes are provided by Thomas Izbicki:
Both manuscripts (47a & 47b) are copies of one of Barzizza's texts on rhetoric based on Cicero.
[Barizizza- "Codex Qummerianus"] and note referring to Bodleian Manuscript Canon. Misc. 165 fol. 123v-148r.
fol. 1r 96, N 147, (75), 139
fol. 1r-54r Garsparinus Barzizza, Colores (the title Colores is found in Kristeller's Iter italicum (online version, accessed September 5, 2006) for a copy in Venice, Marciana Manuscript XIV 65 (4591).
Cum exornaciones uerborum atque sententiarum non semper omnibus conueniant partibus orationis aut eque principaliter...(fol. 1v) Repeticio est etc. [Rhet. ad Herennium IV, 19]. Huic exornacioni corespondet in greco quantum ad primum figuram--Et hec deo gracias demonstracione ceterisque exornacionibus eam uerborum propium et tamen (!) Sumptiuorum (!) Quam sentenciarum cursum et breui commentatat sufficiant. AMEN
Text originally occupied folios 114-167 in a larger manuscript. Catchwords on fol. 10v, 20v, 30v, 40v, 48v. Space for initials at fol. 6r, 34v. Work based on Ciceronian rhetorical tradition.
fol. 54v blank
fol. 55 blank except for (96) on fol. 55v.
The manuscript is in a scribe's hand.
Dates
- Creation: 1400 - 1499
Creator
- Barzizza, Gasparino (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Biography
Gasparino (da) Barzizza (ca.1360-ca.431) (or Gasparinus Barzizius Pergamensis in Latin) was an Italian grammarian and teacher noted for introducing a new style of epistolary Latin inspired by the works of Cicero. One of the first Italian Humanists, he taught rhetoric, grammar, and moral philosophy with the aim of reviving Latin literature.
Extent
1 manuscripts
Language of Materials
Latin
Source of Acquisition
The manuscript is part of a paleography and editing assignment given "Buzz," a nephew of Haverford professor Dean P. Lockwood, according to a letter by Lockwood dated June 14, 1938.
Provenance
From the Dean P. Lockwood Papers.
Extent
8 x 6 inches.
Subject
- Lockwood, Dean Putnam, 1883- (Owner, Person)
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