DS 2.0 Catalog

(Q12975)

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title as recorded
Diodori Siculi Historiarum Priscarum /
standard title
Bibliotheca historica
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uniform title as recorded
Bibliotheca historica.
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associated name as recorded
Diodorus, Siculus
name in authority file
Diodorus Siculus
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Campana, Giampietro, marchese di Cavelli, 1808-1880
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Giampietro Campana
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Philipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
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Thomas Phillipps
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instance of
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genre as recorded
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
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Blind tooled bindings
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illuminated manuscripts
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illuminated manuscripts
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Headbands (Binding)
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Headbands
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Clasps (Binding)
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Clasps
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Wooden boards (Binding)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina--Sarajevo
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decorated initials
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decorated initials
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Parchment (Paper)
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Parchment (Paper)
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subject as recorded
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Italy
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World history--Early works to 1800
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World history
Early works
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--New Jersey--Princeton
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
New Jersey--Princeton
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physical description
Extent: i, 165 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 287 x 200 (210 x 120) mm bound to 300 x 207 mm.
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material as recorded
parchment, illustrations
material in authority file
Parchment
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note
Incipit: “Diodori Siculi Historiarum Priscarum a Poggio in latinum traducti incipit Liber Primus in qvo hec continentvr Totius operis prohemium … Liber Primvs Magnas merito gratias rerum scriptoribus homines debent…”
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Explicit: “Quibus de rebus suo loco scribetur a nobis. Explicit Liber VI.”
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Ms. codex.
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Title from incipit (fol. 2r).
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Brief annotations and topical headings in the margins. Text preceded by the translator's prologue with a dedication to Pope Nicholas V (fol. 1r-2r). Title also on spine.
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Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (contemporary) + 165 ; catchwords for most quires ; modern foliation in pencil.
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Layout: 31 long lines per page.
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Decoration: The text opens on fol. 1r with a 6-line gold initial N with white vine-stem decoration on blue, green, and pink, and one gold carrot projecting into the left margin; erased arms at the foot of the page surrounded by a wreath, amid white vine-stem decoration as above, growing from a golden urn. Books I–VI each open with a 5-line gold initial with white vine-stem decoration on blue...
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Origin: Produced in Rome shortly after 1450. Copied by one of the translator's scribes, probably in Rome.
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. The erased arms on fol. 1r may possibly be those of Decio Azzolini (1549 or 1550–1587), of Rome. Intermediate provenance unknown. In the collection of the Marchese Giovanni Pietro Campana. Sold in 1860 by Sotheby's London. Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired the manuscript, possibly from booksellers Thomas and William Boone. Sold by Sotheby's in 1896, then by J. & J. Leighton, and Giuseppe...
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date added
8 November 2023
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date last updated
8 November 2023
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dated
Non-dated
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