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Two Catalogues of Manuscripts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Sesto Prete*
Affiliation:
Fordham University

Extract

Until comparatively recently, inventories which confined themselves to a mere listing of titles of works, were the only source available to characterize library holdings. With the advance of scientific research, however, the need for detailed manuscript catalogues has become ever more widely recognized. A multitude of facts, such as date, provenance (if it is at all possible to establish it), copyist, possessors, and so forth, are required for each manuscript.

Type
Bibliographical Survey
Copyright
Copyright © 1965 New York, Fordham University Press 

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References

1 The catalogue is issued by the Italian Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione; Indici e Cataloghi, Nuova Serie II, vol. 1 (Rome 1949) compiled by Elena Moneti, Giovanni Muzzioli, Innocenza Rossi and Mercedes Zamboni; vol. 2 (Rome 1956) compiled by Maddalena Cerese and Emma Santovito; vol. 3 (Rome 1952) compiled by Maddalena Ceresi; vol. 4 (Rome 1961) compiled by the same; vol. 5 (Rome 1958) compiled by Ada Moricca Caputi.Google Scholar

2 Kristeller, Paul O., Iter Italicum, vol. 1 (Italy) (London-Leiden 1963).Google Scholar

3 I wish to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the staff of the library, expecially to Dr. Anna Maria Giorgetti, for information given me through correspondence and for special permission to visit the library (while it was closed to the public), to use the inventory. and to examine some manuscripts. Dr. Giorgetti was kind enough to send me several pertinent microfilms, upon which this review article is chiefly based.Google Scholar

4 The text has been published by Bernardinus de Vitalibus (Homeri poetarum clarissimi Odyssea de erroribus Ulyxis [Venetiis 1516]). In regard to the authorship of that translation, see, above all, J. Vahlen, Laurentii Vallae opuscula tria (Wien 1869) 91-114; G. Mancini, Francesco Griffolini (Firenze 1890) 38-42; L. Agostinelli and G. Benadduci, Biografia e Bibliografia di Giovan Mario Filelfo (Tolentino 1899) 36; R. Sabbadini. Carteggio di G. Aurispa (Fonti per la Storia d’Italia 70 [Rome 1931]) 103, n. 1.Google Scholar

5 Published by G.A. Molin, Orazioni, elogi, vite 1(Venice 1795) 12-18; see also J. B. Mittarelli, Bibliotheca codicum Manuscriptorum Monasterii S. Michaelis Venetiarum (Venice 1779) 488; G.B. Giullari, La letteratura veronese al cadere del secolo XV (Bologna 1876) 286.Google Scholar

6 Published by Mittarelli, 481-488.Google Scholar

7 Epistolario di Guarino Veronese raccolto ordinato illustrato (R. Deputazione veneta di Storia patria: Miscellanea di Storia veneta, 3 vols. [Venice 1915–1919]).Google Scholar

8 In the list of Guarino Veronese's writings given by Giullari (pp. 281-302), we found all the items of the MS Casanatense except the second.Google Scholar

9 Concerning Lutius, see my book, Two Humanistic Anthologies (Studi e Testi 230 [Città del Vaticano 1964]) 24-25.Google Scholar

10 On p. 290, n. 11, Giullari writes: ‘forse scritta nel 1430 in onore dei gloriosi fatti d'arme contro Volterra e Lucca, in servizio de’ Fiorentini.’Google Scholar

11 The letter was written in Spoleto, as we read at the end of the text: ex arce sp(o)l(etina): XII kal. oct. Google Scholar

12 This letter was written in Recanati, as is indicated at the close: ex ractaneto (sic) XXV ap(ri)l. 1446. Google Scholar

13 On Mathias Treviensis, see Sabbadini, Epistolario 3.318.Google Scholar

14 Pontano, T., pupil of Guarino Veronese, is himself quite a well-known humanist. On Pontano, see Sabbadini, Epistolario 3.242; M.E. Cosenza, Dictionary of the Italian Humanists 4 (Boston 1962) 2927.Google Scholar

15 See Archivum Romanicum 15 (1931) 306-309.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

16 Casotti, G. B., Prose e rime dei due Buonaccorsi di Montemagno (Firenze 1718) 296.Google Scholar

17 See Bertalot, , ‘Uno zibaldone umanistico del Quattrocento a Parma,’ La Bibliofilia 38 (1936) 7387; Prete, op. cit. 58, n. 2.Google Scholar

18 See Prete, op. cit. 21.Google Scholar

19 See n. 9, supra. Google Scholar

20 See n. 4, supra. Google Scholar