MS. Ital. e. 6

Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)

Language(s): Italian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: parchment

Extent: ii (a modern paper flyleaf and a loose cutting from an italian newspaper) + i (modern parchment) + 199 + i (modern parchment) leaves.

Dimensions (leaf): 168–9 × 86–7 mm.

Dimensions (ruled): 140 × 55 mm.

Foliation: Foliated in modern pencil

Layout

36 long lines.

Hand(s)

Fine humanistic script, attributed by de la Mare (1994), to Coluccio Salutati.

Decoration

Simple red and blue initials.

Binding

Sewn on five cords, and bound in 19th-century blind-tooled green leather over pasteboards; with a pair of gilt metal clasps at the fore-edge with a monogram of the letters 'TT [or JJ?] S'; the centre of the upper board lettered in gilt 'DANTE | COMEDIA', and the lower board 'CODICE | DEL | SEC.XIV'; rust-stains and holes in fols. 2-5 and 197-200 show that a previous binding had metal fittings at each corner and in the centre of each board.

History

Origin: 14th century, end ; Italian

Provenance and Acquisition

A reagent has been used on a contemporary ?ownership note below the explicit on fol. 199r, it perhaps reads 'Liber Jacobi ser(?) g(e)b(i?) lippi'.

The upper pastedown stamped in gilt with the initials 'A C[?] P' in 'black-letter' characters, within a cartouche, the lower pastedown similarly stamped with the motto 'IN OMNIBUS RESPICE FINEM'.

Dr. E. Moore (1835-1916), rector of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, acquired in 1880 from Fratelli Bocca, Rome, and inscribed in pencil (fol. 1r) 'E. Moore | S Edmund Hall | Oxford | June 1880'; bequeathed by him to the Bodleian (cf. MS. Ital. d. 5), and provisionally given a Summary Cataloguenumber (a paper label printed with 'S.C. 37410' is upside-down in the lower right corner of the lower pastedown).

Bequeathed to the Bodleian by Moore.

Record Sources

Peter Kidd, Checklist of Western Medieval Manuscripts Acquired 1916-; unpublished typescript description by Peter Kidd, 1990s.

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Bibliography

Edward Moore, ed., Contributions to the textual criticism of the Divina commedia: including the complete collation throughout the Inferno of all the MSS. at Oxford and Cambridge (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1889), 550-2 (siglum 'Z').

Bodleian Library, 'Donations: manuscripts', Oxford University Gazette, (28 February 1917), 330.

Marcella Roddewig, Dante Alighieri Die göttliche Komödie: vergleichende Bestandsaufnahme der Commedia-Handschriften (Stuttgart, Anton Hersemann, 1984), 225 no. 528 (description), see also pp. XLVI-VII.

A. C. de la Mare, 'A palaeographer's odyssey', in John Onians, ed. Sight and insight: essays on art and culture in honour of E. H. Gombrich at 85 (Phaidon Press, London, 1994), 88-107, figs. 33-40, at 104 fig. 40 (fols. 134v-135r), 105.

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-09: Add codicological detail and provenance from typescript description.

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