Vernacular Culture and Greek Texts in Renaissance Florence: a Database of Florentine Vernacularizations of Greek texts (c. 1460-1500)

Yale, Beinecke Library, Marston 73

Item

Manuscript copy id

MC0000047 See all items with this value

Translator

Anonymous See all items with this value

Work

Vernacular translation of Diodorus Siculus, books 1-2 (divided into three books) See all items with this value

Shelfmark

Yale, Beinecke Library, Marston 73 See all items with this value

Date

[Florence, c. 1470s-1480s] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Parchment See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

213 x 141
I + 129 (127r-129r ruled but blank)
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Foliation

Folios are numbered in pencil in the upper right margin.

Collation

13 quires: I-XII(10), XIII(10-1)

Type of script

Tidy, upright and calligraphic 'mercantesca' script, with influence of the humanist script. Light brown ink. See all items with this value

Annotations

The main scribe is responsible for a number of cancellations and corrections of the text. Some spaces were left blank in the first instance and were filled with missing words by the scribe in a secondary phase of revision. See all items with this value

Decoration

Absent; blank space for initials at fols. 1r, 5v, 36v, 83r. At fols. 36r-v and 82v some lines were left blank by the scribe for rubricating the "argumenta" of the books, which were never realised.

Incipit

fol. 1r: "Meritamente sono obligati gli huomini di douere rendere grandissime gratie agli scriptori".

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Explicit

fol. 126v: "e scripse molte altre cose d’india delle quali innançi non sera auto cognitione alcuna".

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Bibliography

- Shailor, Barbara (ed.), Catalogue of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 3 vol., Binghamton/New York, Medieval & Renaissance texts & studies, 1984–1992, vol. 3, 141-143.
- Sideri, Cecilia, La fortuna di Diodoro Siculo fra Quattrocento e Cinquecento. Edizione critica dei volgarizzamenti della Biblioteca storica, libri I-II, De Gruyter (BzRP), Berlin, 2022, 255-257.

Digitized copy

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/11403213

Record last updated

22 October 2024