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

London, British Library, Add. 16375

Item

Manuscript copy id

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Translator

Bartolomeo Della Fonte (Fonzio) See all items with this value

Work

Epistole di Phalari See all items with this value

Shelfmark

London, British Library, Add. 16375 See all items with this value

Date

c. 1470s-1480s See all items with this value

Place

[Florence?] See all items with this value

Seen

Yes

Material

Paper See all items with this value

Dimensions and Structure

204 x 132
fols. I + 90 + I’ See all items with this value

Foliation

Fols. are numbered in the upper right margin of the recto.

Collation

9 quires: I-IX(10); horizontal catchwords at the centre of the lower margin.

Ruling

hard point?

Type of script

Two hands:
a) fols. 1r-84v: humanist cursive
b) fols 85v-90r: early-16th-century 'cancelleresca all’antica'; this hand may be responsible for writing the rubric "In nomine Franciscus [sic] Malateste B" at fol. 1r, the title "epistole phallari vulgariter" at fol. 84v, and the invocation "In nomine domini amen" at fol. 85r. See all items with this value

Decoration

Yes; fol. 1r, opening page with an ornamental golden initial inscribed in a square decorated with white vine-stems on a ground of blu, green and red; the scrolling extends to create a three-quarter border; on the lower bar there is an unidentified coat of arms inscribed in a laurel wreath. At fol. 2r, golden initial inscribed into a square decorated with a white vine-stem scrolling, which extends to create a short tail in the inner margin. In the rest of the manuscript there are simple initials in blue or red ink. Titles and rubrics are written in dark pink ink.

Marks of ownership, inscriptions and previous shelfmarks

At fol. Ir, number «10» (ancient shelfmark?) written in ink in the upper right margin; at the centre of the same margin there is a scarsely legible note of ownership dated 1846; over this note there is a number («28») written in pencil and inscribed into a triangle; on the verso  of the same fol. there are numbers «79» (in ink) and the current shelfmark «16375» written in pencil; moreover, in the lower margin, the number «146b» is written in pencil. The shelfmark «16375 plut. CXLVI B» is written in gold on the spine of the manuscript. In the upper side of the spine, there is a paper label with the number "146"; at the foot of the spine,  another paper label hosts the mark "B.4".

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Binding

Modern binding; cardboards coveder with marbled leather. On the spine there is the title of the work, written in gold ("Phalar. Epist. Trado. D. Fonz."), and "M … BR… JU..E EM..T".

Notes

This entry is a work in progress. Further data will be soon integrated to complete it.