MS. Canon. Misc. 378
Summary Catalogue no.: 19854
Notitia dignitatum, etc.; Switzerland (Basel), 1436
Contents
Language(s): Latin; item 14 in Latin and Greek
Double-page illuminated frontispiece.
Fol. 2v blank.
Lacuna at end, inherited from exemplar
eTK 0814HPr. Geographi latini minores,ed. A. Riese (1878), pp. 71–103.
Pr. Itinerarium Antonini Augusti et Hierosolymitanum, ed. G. Parthey and M. Pinder (1848).
Lists of the hills and aqueducts of the City of Rome:
Pr. Dicuili Liber de mensura orbis terrae, ed. J. J. Tierney (Dublin, 1967)
Texts on the provinces:
Fols. 66rb-66v blank.
Pr. Anonymi auctoris De rebus bellicis, R. I. Ireland (Teubner, 1984)
Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti philosophi, ed. L. W. Daly and W. Suchier (1939).
Pr. Notitia Dignitatum, ed. Seeck, pp. 230–43.
Pr. Corpus Iuris Romani Anteiustiniani, ed. E. Böcking et al. (1835), p. 173.
Pr. Notitia Dignitatum, ed. Seeck, pp. 1–225.
Added text. Title in Pietro Donato’s own hand, 'Demensuratio prouinciarum, que non erat in precedenti codice, sed de antiquissimo libro excerpta.' – i.e. not from the Codex Spirensis but from another 9th-century manuscript, now surviving as Oxford, Merton College MS. 315.
Pr. Geographi latini minores, pp. 9–14.
An extract from the original Greek, with Latin translation by Cyriaco d'Ancona, both in Cyriaco’s hand with headings in green ink, and here dedicated to Pietro Donato though elsewhere to other patrons.
Fol. 173v blank.
Physical Description
Layout
2 cols., 29 lines.
Hand(s)
Humanistic script. The same scribe also copied a Terence at Basel in 1436, perhaps also for Pietro Donato (MS. Vat. Ottob. lat. 1368), with miniatures also by Peronet Lamy (see below).
Fols. 172v-173 written by Cyriaco d'Ancona.
Decoration
Important miniatures, after a Carolingian copy of a late antique MS., by Peronet Lamy. Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 666 and ii. 599, pls. LII and LVI)
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Copied for Pietro Donato, at the council of Basel, 1436, from the 'Codex Spirensis', a Carolingian copy, preserved in the cathedral library at Speyer, of a late antique manuscript. Fol. 170: 'Exemplata est hec Cosmographia quę Scoti dicitur cum picturis ex uetustissimo Codice. quem habui ex Spirensi bibliotheca. Anno domini .M.CCCCXXXVI. mense Ianuario. Dum ego Petrus donatus dei pacientia episcopus paduanus uice Sanctissimi domini Eugenij paper .iiij. Generali Basiliensi Concilio pręsiderem'.
No. 209 in the inventory of Donato's books (P. Sambin, 'La bibliotheca di Pietro Donato (1380–1447)', Bolletino del Museo Civico di Padua 48 (1959), 53–98. His annotations throughout the volume.
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.