MS. Add. C. 14
Summary Catalogue no.: 24747
Contents
, Vite degli Uomini illustri
Italian translation of Donato degli Albanzani da Pratovecchio
Thirty-five Lives, mostly concerned with Roman history
The Life of Caesar is of notable length (fols 100v-202v)
A list of contents is at the end
Language(s): Italian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment, paper
i + 308 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 13.75 × 9.75 in.
Hand(s)
Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 285, Pl. XXVI)
Decoration
Pächt and Alexander ii. 285, Pl. XXVI
Fine initial
fol. 1r
- Type initial R(omolo)
- Subject Gold 8-line initial with white-stem interlace and floral designs
Fine border
- Type border, upper, left and lower margins
- Subject White-stem interlace, floral designs, gold disks, three birds, three butterflies and four putti. In the lower margin two putti support a laurel wreath, encircling a medallion, left blank to be filled with a coat of arms
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian at Sotheby's on 2 April 1859 from the collection of Guillaume Libri. No. 791 in the sale catalogue
Record Sources
Description adapted (May 2025) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1905). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)
Bibliography
N. Mann, ‘Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles’, Italia Medioevale e Umanistica, 18 (1975), pp. 139–527, no. 161 (pp. 362-363)
MSS. Add., handwritten catalogue by F. Madan [Weston Library, shelved at R. 6. 58]
Abbreviations
View list of abbreviations and editorial conventions.
Last Substantive Revision
2025-05-29: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1905) and other printed sources