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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444847, MS q Med.20)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444847, MS q Med.20) |
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28 November 2023
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Agli, Pellegrino, 1440-1468
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Grimani, Domenico, 1460-1523
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Grimani, Marino, approximately 1488-1546
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Pithou, Pierre, 1539-1596
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Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de, 1798-1870
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Barrois, Joseph, approximately 1785-1855
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Silva, Ercole, 1756-1840
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Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Didactic poetry, Latin--Texts--Manuscripts
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Medicine, Greek and Roman--Manuscripts
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1461.
15. century
1461Gregorian
1461Gregorian
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Extent: 111 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 191 x 126 (135 x 75) mm, in box 23 cm
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Ms. codex.
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Title devised by cataloger.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. iv (i-iii later paper; iv contemporary parchment) + 110 + iii (later paper) ; 1-1110 ; catchwords in lower right corner, final verso of each quire, mostly trimmed away. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each page.
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Secundo folio: Hi tantum movere...
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Script: Written in a humanistic cursive in brown ink with red rubrics.
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Layout: 1 column, 25 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind.
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Decoration: 3-line white-vine initial in gold on colors with white-vine borders in colors in inner and upper margin, fol. 1; initial of similar size and syle, without border, on fol. 87; Manilius' book 1 begins with 2-line blue capital, fol.19v.
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Binding: 17th-century vellum over pasteboard, edges mottled red, Barrois and Ashburnham labels on spine, 17th-century handwritten title on spine, "M[an]lii/Astron/omicum/66." Housed in tan cloth clamshell box.
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Origin: Written in Ferrara, Italy, in 1461 by Pellegrino Agli of Ferrara (see fol. 110v).
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Provenance 1: In a contemporary hand on front flyleaf: "Versus quos Ci[cer]o allegat in libro de fato./ Sunt qui in fortunae iam casibus omnia ponant/ Et mundum credant nullo rectore moveri/ Natura volvente vices et mensis et anni." In a slightly later hand -- possibly that of Pierre Pithout -- the attribution of the verses to Juvenal (Satura XIII, ll. 86-88). Greek annotations in an early...
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Provenance 2: Joseph Scaliger wrote to Pithou about this manuscript in 1573, asking to study it for his forthcoming edition (Lettres françaises inédites, pp. 21 and 26).
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Immediate source of acquisition: Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's London, 10 June 1901, lot 376 to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library (Cockerell's notes and Sotheby's lot number inside front cover.
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Call number: MS q Med.20.
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Former call number: MS G.38.46.
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Byname: Codex Pithoeanus of Manilius.
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Bibliography: "Agli, Pellegrino," Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Rome), 401-402; R. Bentley, ed., M. Manilii Astronomicon (London, 1739); Seymour de Ricci, "A Handlist of Latin Classical Manuscripts in American Libraries," Philological Quarterly, I (1922): 105; F. Flamini, Pellegrino Agli, umanista poeta e confilosofo del Ficino (Pisa, 1893); H.W. Garrod, Manili Astronomicon (Oxford...
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4 December 2023
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