University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 829
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1681
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 829
- Title:
- Renaissance miscellany
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- between 1459 and 1484
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- paper
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 105 leaves : paper ; 231 x 169 (157 x 110) mm bound to 235 x 170 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Curtius, Lancinus
Lockwood, Dean Putnam, 1883-
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
No overall title in the text; title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Collation: I10, II4, III3, (IV-X)10, XI8, XII10 (Stillman). Link to collation model at end of record.
Foliation: Paper, ii + 105 + i; [ii], 1-105, [i], contemporary foliation in black ink.
Layout: Written in a single column of 31 lines, frame-ruled in ink and lead.
Script: Written in one hand, in an Italian humanistic script.
Decoration: The initial at the start of the introduction to the first work is ornamented with green, pink, and blue (1r.); the initial at the start of the first work proper is ornamented with purple (1v.). Most works begin with a red initial; titles and names of characters in dialogues are written in red.
Binding: 18th-century vellum with a few worm holes.
Watermark: Several folios bear the watermark of a crown that is not included in Briquet's Les Filigranes (Stillman).
Origin: Written in Italy, between between 1459 and 1484 (Stillman).
Incipit (1st work): Eloquentissimi viri Leonardi Aretini prefatio in laudatione clarissimi viri Nannis Stroze equitis Florentini. [Exp.] ... honore et perpetua civium suorum commendatione [felicem?]. Finis.
Incipit (2nd work): Contentio de presidentia P. Scipionis, Hanibalis et Alexandri ex Luciano auctore greco latina facta per Johannem Aurispam. [Exp.] Et Alexander secundus sit et tertius si nidet Annibal [haec?] hic quidem spernendus est. Finis.
Incipit (3rd work): Francisci Petrarce clarissimi poete et hystoria singularis collatio facta inter Scipionem Romanum, Alexandrum Macedonem, Annibalem Penum et Pyrhum Epirotharum regem quis eorum prestantior fuerit. [Exp.] ... ipse Annibal. Aliquantoque facilius fuit. Finis.
Incipit (4th work): Luciani philosophi libellus de virtute conquerente in quo introducitur Mercurius ... [Exp.] Virtus: Eternum lamentandum est. Ego nuda ac despecta abeo. Finis.
Incipit (5th work): Comperatio P. Scipionis et C. Julii Cesaris edita per Pogium virum disertissimum. [Exp.] Vale. Florentie quarto Idus Aprilis.
Incipit (6th work): Epistola Guarini Veronensis viri doctissimi ad illustrem dominum Leonellum Estensem. [Exp.] ... pro tua severitate se[nte]ntiam proferes. Vale.
Incipit (7th work): Guarinus Veronensis impatiens quod Pogius scripserit Scipionem praestare Caesari ... [Exp.] ... et docti et diserti viri rerum scriptoris nomen et preconium consignari. Vale.
Incipit (8th work): Epistola Pogii viri disertissimi ad clarissimum meum Cos[i]mam de Medicis. [Exp.] ... necessaria in oblivionem laberentur. Vale.
Incipit (9th work): Disceptatio habita inter doctissimos viros Nicolaum Niccolum et Carolinum Aretinum. An seni sit uxor ducenda -- per Pogiu[m] scripta. [Exp.] ... ne cum dicta essent [?] eximus. Finis.
Incipit (10th work): Leonardi Justiniani Veneti viri [patertii?] oratio habita in funere clarissimi viri Caroli Zeno. [Exp.] Sed et imitatione quoque ac opere declaremus. Finis.
Incipit (11th work): Poggius Florentinus vir disertissimus per moleste secens q[uod] Guarin[us] Veronensis ad eum tam contumeliose scripserit in defendendo Cesarem edidit libellum in quo susceptam causam Scipionis defendit et ante ora[tionem] p[er] hanc ep[isto]lam se excusat apud illustrem dominu[m] Leonellum Marchionem Estensem. [Exp.] ... quod tu senseris sentire volo ac tuo indicio...
Incipit (12th work): Epistola eiusdem Poggius ad clarissimum virum Franciscum Barbarum civem Venetum. [Exp.] ... vel me vel Guarinum vel utcumque aut temeritatis aut ignorantie accusabis. Vale.
Incipit (13th work): Sequitur libellus [?] defensio Poggii Florentini contra Guarini oppugnationes d[e] prestantia Cesaris et Scipio[n]is. [Exp.] Vale et parce longitudini me[a]e. Ex Florentia.
Incipit (14th work): Epistola Antonii Panormite ad divu[m] p[ri]ncipem Phillippu[m] Mariam. [Exp.] Magna quidem coniectura probitatis est et laus non ultima principi et summo viro collibuisse. Vale.
Incipit (15th work): Responsio divi p[ri]ncipis Philippi Marie ducisM[i]l[an]i Anto[n]io s[upra]s[crip]to. [Exp.] ... ut alter alterius possit gaudere p[raese]ntia. Vale.
Incipit (16th work): Alia responsio Antonii Panormite p[rae]libato duci Mediolani. [Exp.] ... tum locum mihi decernere quo melius id possim aggrediar idque perficiam. Vale spes Musarum.
Incipit (17th work): Epistola Antonii Panormite ad Aluysium Crottum ducalem ... [Exp.] Vale meum decus. Ex Papia.
Incipit (18th work): Argumentum Pompeiane. Cicero creatus pretor Romanus ... [Exp.] ... eloquentia contraria argumenta confutat.
Incipit (19th work): M. T. Ciceronis de laudibus G. N. Pompei oratio incipit. [Exp.] ... meis omnibus commodis et rationibus preferre opportere. Finis.
Incipit (20th work): Solvite Pierides contuso pectore ... [Exp.] ... fractus contegitur lapide.
Incipit (21st work): Caius Sextus Pompeius Strabo veteribus incolis ... [Exp.] ... maiestatem minuisset capitalis esset.
Incipit (22nd work): Inter bellorum magnorum strages ac vix dum ... [Exp.] vicensimo primo anno post abrogata est [?] lata.
Incipit (23rd work): Pillule Mag[ist]ri Antonii Cermisoni. [Exp.] ... in sole sicut siccantur [alifangine?].
Work 4, attributed to Lucian in the manuscript, is by Leon Battista Alberti (Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue).
Work 20, with no attribution in the manuscript and listed as anonymous by Zacour-Hirsch, is by Ludovico Carbone (Stillman).
Folios 1r. and 105r. have the inscription, "Liber Lancini Curtii artiu[m] scolaris m[edio]l[an]en[sis] 1484."
A description of this manuscript (typescript, 1977) by Carol Stillman is in the library's file.
Formerly owned by Lancinus Curtius, Milan, 1484 (f. 1r, 105r).
Formerly owned by Dean Putnam Lockwood, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 1946.
Sold by William H. Allen (Philadelphia), 1947. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9931765513503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3p55dh9v/manifest
- Holding Institution:
