Humanistic miscellany

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1.1r-21v: “ || Proposito tali dabitur tibi gratia maior | Sic et habundanti dogmate dignus erit ...” Explicit: “Iste liber merito sit uitta scolastica ditus | Sit yhesu christo gloria laus et honor | Hec bonuicinus de ripa noscere lector | Si uis composuit carmina dante deo: | Deo Gratias Amen.”
2.22r-27v: “[E]ua columba fuit tunc candida nigra deinde | Facta per anguineum mallesuasa fraude uenenum ...” Explicit: “... et septem potuit signacula pandere solus. Finito libro referamus gratias christo. Finis deo gratias.”
3.29r-41r: “Animaduerti brute sepe catonem auunculum tuum cum in senatu sententiam diceret ...” Explicit: “... pauperes atque inopes exterriadi(!) sunt. Amen deo gratias.”
4.42r-51v: “Etsi non dubitabam quin hanc epistolam multi nuntii fama denique esset ipsa sua celeritate superatura ...” Explicit: “... quibus si aduersamur ordinem de nobis ||”
5. 54r-61v: “Liber vocabulorum: et primo de homine [...]. Homonis, communis generis. Lo homo hesta(?) donc ab humo quod est terra eo quia factus est de limo terrae ...” Explicit: “Granum m. et n. g. el grano a grandis quia crescendo grande fit. Arcinus.”

Description:

A compilation of works by Bonvicinus de Ripa, Prudentius, Cicero, and a Latin-Italian bilingual glossary.
Script: Semi-Gothic, by several different hands.
Decoration: One crude 5-line pen-flourished initial in red and black (fol. 29r), and many 2- or 3-line red and blue initials, some with penwork decoration.

Binding note:

Italy, 17th century. The textblock is sewn onto three leather thongs laced into a pasteboard cover, with a handwritten title on the front flyleaf: “Opuscula quaedam, versibus, et prosa exarata.”

Provenance:

Princeton MS. 152 is a miscellany comprised of five booklets. The first three booklets are comprised of four texts copied by Marco Giustiniani, a young member of the patrician Giustiniani family of Venice. By the early 16th century the manuscript was part of the library of S. Paulo Giustiniani (1476-1528), who added Giovanni Quirini's 1483 oration. The manuscript was later donated by Giovanni Giustiniani to Eremo di Padua, S. Maria de Rua, for use by S. Paolo Giustiniani's biographer Luca di Barcellona. The Princeton University Library purchased the manuscript in 1994 from the London antiquarian bookseller Sam Fogg Rare Books (Acc. no. 1994-99).

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Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 415-416.

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