Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Regulae artificialis memoriae

Authors

• Ragone, Jacopo
• Calanus, Juvencus Coelius

Call number

Ms. Codex 67
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914739413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448461
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1473941

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1471

Place

Italy

Summary

Contains the text of a work on strategies of memorization by Jacopo Ragone. Also contains the Istoria [i.e., Historia] Attile Hunnorum regis, written by Juvencus Caelius Calanus in the 12th century.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on incipit (f. 1r). First work appears to have been composed in 1434 (f. 1r).
   
• Title of second work from caption title (f. 16r).
   
• Inscription on the upper cover also gives the date of 1434 for the first work, as well as the name of the author of the second work. The last two lines of the inscription are difficult to read. This inscription might be contemporary with the manuscript.
   
• First work, incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Iusso tuo, princeps illustrissime, artificialis memorie regulas ... (f. 15v) Dixi, valle dus [?] et felicitorum princeps collendissime [?].
   
• Second work, incipit and explicit: (f. 16r) Hunni qui et Navares nunc autem hungari ... (f. 23v) mensis dies id con cesare in senatu acceptis vulneribus confessus interit.
   
• Second work, colophon: (f. 23v) Laus deo Amen. L. D. S. scripxit hoc die 29 1471.
   
• Cover is worn in the area around the spine.
   

Extent

24 leaves : 207 x 147 (136 x 105) mm. bound to 208 x 145 mm

Collation

Paper, 24; 1-2¹²; 1-24; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

15th-century Italian limp vellum wrapper with original tie extant.

Layout

Written in 23 long lines; ruled in lead.

Script

Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold by J. Rosenthal, 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Memory--Early works to 1800
• Mnemonics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Biographies
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Biography
• Treatise
• Paper
• Italian
• Italy

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