MS. Ital. e. 13
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
A collection of eighty-one quotations in Latin from classical authors and the Bible, with Italian commentary.
Cf. Rosaio della vita: trattato morale attribuito a Matteo de' Corsini e composto nel MCCCLXXIII (Florence, 1845); on the attribution to Corsini cf. Anna Benvenuti Papi in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani XXIX (1983)
Alphabetical subject index
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
29-31 lines, in 1 column.
Hand(s)
Written in humanistic script by Naninus de Marsilijs (see Provenance).
Decoration
Spaces left blank for initials.
Binding
Three-quarter speckled brown leather and marbled paper over wood boards; rebacked.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Colophon: 'Ego naninus de Marsilijs propria manu scripsi Et die xxij Junij Moccccoxl. Explevj' (fol. 34r), and below this the arms of Marsigli of Bologna (a pointed oval enclosing a representation of a battlemented bridge over a river), between the letters 'N' and 'A'.
Inscribed in a contemporary hand 'Iohannes de cankero de almania' (fol. 34v), and with verses containing his name.
16th-century inscription, read by an early Bodleian cataloguer as 'Libraria di santa maria di Pino' (fol. 1r), i.e. Notre Dame du Pin, a Benedictine priory of St. Victor, Marseilles; the inscription subsequently read by Watson, Catalogue of dated and datable manuscripts {ic}.435-1600 in Oxford libraries (2 vols., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984), I, no. 528, as 'Libraria di santa M(ari)a di piaz[a?]', probably the Cistercian abbey of S. Maria de Placii, Ceneda, Veneto.
According to John W. Bradley, A dictionary of miniaturists, illuminators, calligraphers, and copyists ... (3 vols., London, 1887-9), II, 265, this manuscript was in the 'Libri sale catal. x. 156', but this reference has not been found.
Thomas Arthur or William Ridler: with their price-code and erased price (fol. i verso; cf. Buchanan cat., Introduction).
Bought by the Bodleian in 1941.