• Diodori Siculi Historiarum Priscarum a Poggio in latinum traducti

Extent:

• i, 165 leaves : parchment ; 287 x 200 mm

Date:

• 1450

Language:

• Latin

Author:

• Diodorus, Siculus

Translator:

• Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459

Description:

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 2r.
• Bibliotheca historica, books I-VI, translated by Poggio Bracciolini, with dedication to Pope Nicholas V. Annotations by Giovanni Tortelli and possibly by Poggio.

Binding note:

• Blind-tooled brown calf over wooden boards, with leather clasps and metal catchplates. Italy, 15th century.

Provenance:

• Marchese Giovanni Pietro Campana, Sir Thomas Phillipps.

Source acquisition:

• Gift; Robert Garrett, 1942.

References:

• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, p. 233-235.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99110021153506421

Annotator:

• Tortelli, Giovanni, approximately 1400-1466

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