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Title

Epistolae ad familiares; Rime, Trionfi, etc.

Authors

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius (http://viaf.org/viaf/78769600/#Cicero,_Marcus_Tullius.)
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374 (http://viaf.org/viaf/39382430/#Petrarca,_Francesco,_1304-1374.)
• Pseudo-Cicero (http://viaf.org/viaf/305360068/#Pseudo-Cicero)
• Pseudo-Seneca (http://viaf.org/viaf/294784551/#Pseudo-Seneca)

Other related names

• Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/5314321/#Heber,_Richard,_1773-1833)
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/78699777/#Goodhart,_Howard_Lehman,_1884?-1951)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081/#Phillipps,_Thomas,_Sir,_1792-1872)
• Sagredo, Gerardo, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 6
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms6.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin; Italian; Ancient Greek (to 1453)

Origin

Place

Ferrara, Italy
Venice, Italy
Castro Massignani

Summary

This is a mid-fifteenth century Italian manuscript, which contains various letters from Cicero or Pseudo-Cicero; two unidentified homilies; an index of Petrarch's sonnets, Petrarch's Canzoniere, poems 5 and 4 from his Rime disperse, and his Trionfi; and Pseudo-Seneca's De remediis fortuitorum bonorum liber. The scribe is identified as Petrus de Carbonibus, whose colophons recur frequently throughout the work and his son, Leonardus, who wrote the last leaf in Castro Massignani on 31 May 1456.

Notes

• Previously Goodhart 5
   
• On front cover on a torn paper label: "...d[?] 753." On spine in ink: "LXXXIII/ ca 4[?]"
   
• On spine in ink: "LXXXIII/ ca 4[?]"
   
• Remnants of foliation for individual works
   
• On fol. 106v five lines of Latin in later hand giving various readings for the letters SPQR
   
• May be MS 118 in Albrizzi cat., Venice ca. 1746 in possession of Gerardo Sagredo collection
   
• The scribe, Petrus de Carbonibus, frequently dates the end of his work with dates occurring after end of each text
   
• In the letters that include Greek text, a space has been left for the Greek to be added; usually that space remains blank, although in a few cases the Greek has been added by a later hand
   
• Text breaks off at bottom of fol. 218v
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Aigle 80, Briquet Basilic 2665, Briquet Cerf 3296, an unidentified stag, and an unidentified letter S

Extent

Ii+218+viii; 309 x 207 mm bound to 316 x 225 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in ink in top right corner recto, fols. 1r-106r, some foliation duplicated in pencil; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, fols. 107r-218r; foliation in ink, upper right recto, numbering one through ninety-two for fols. 127r-218r; separate foliation in ink, lower right recto, numbering one through seventy-one for fols. 127r-197v

Collation

1 (10), 2 (16), 3 (10), 4 (14), 5-8 (10), 9 (16), 10 (6), 11 (14), 12-17 (10), 18 (12), 19-20 (10)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords centered directly below text in lower margin verso

Binding

Venice, circa 1720; olive-paneled roan of the type made exclusively for Gerardo Sagnedo; gold-tooled Venetian arms added soon after consisting of an oval escutcheon quartered by a curved pale and fesse; gold-tooled title on spine: "M. T. CIC./ EPISTOLAE//PETRARCA/ RIME"

Layout

Fols. 1r-106v: single column, thirty-nine to forty-six lines, unruled with single vertical bounding lines in lead or hardpoint, right bounding line either left out completely or else ignored, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 226 x 153 mm

Fols. 107r-113v: four columns, sixty lines, unruled with single vertical bounding lines on the left side of each column, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 242 x 154 mm

Fols. 114r-125v: two columns, fifty-five to fifty-eight lines, unruled with single vertical bounding lines, the right line ignored, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 242 x 177 mm

Fol. 126r: two columns, about sixty-two lines, unruled with single vertical bounding lines in ink, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 220 x 103 mm

Fols. 127r-197v: single column, about fifty eight lines, unruled with double vertical bounding lines in ink, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 213 x 90 mm

Fols. 199r-218v: single column, about forty-seven lines, unruled with vertical bounding lines in lead, pricking occasionally visible throughout; written area: 212 x 125 mm

Decoration

Two eight-line pen and ink initials and one nine-line pen and ink initial; one- to two-line black ink initials begin each of Cicero's letters, occasionally the initial letter is omitted with only a tiny guide letter visible in margin. In the Canzoniere, spaces have been left for initials, but not filled in. Text is accompanied by marginalia and interlinear glosses in several hands throughout

Script

Fere-humanistic script

Scribe: Petrus de Carbonibus

Scribe: Leonardus de Carbonibus

Colophon

On fol. 216v: "Francisci Petrarce Laureati poetae Triumphus Vltimus. Explicit 1432."

Provenance

• Written in Ferrara and Venice in 1432-1434 by Petrus de Carbonibus whose colophons recur frequently throughout the work (e.g. fols. 16r, 17v, 26v 38v, 41r, 50v, 56v, etc.) and by his son Leonardus, who wrote the last leaf in Castro Massignani on 31 May 1456. Probably from the collection of Gerardo Sagredo of Venice. (Albrizzi cat., Venice circa 1746, ms. 118?), sold by Thorpe (his name in ink on recto of first flyleaf) in March 1821 to Richard Heber; his sale (London 1836, XI n. 613) to Thorpe (Cat. of mss., 1836, n. 269) who then sold it to Sir Thomas Phillipps (n. 8866 on recto of first flyleaf and fol. 1r); his sale (London, 1935, n. 336, catalogue entry glued to first flyleaf) to Maggs ("no. 103," in lead on recto of first flyleaf). Acquired by Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate, census no. on inside of front cover, recto of first flyleaf), and presented by him to Bryn Mawr College in 1951.
   

Related resources

• Cicero. Epistulae ad familiares. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ed. (Cambridge, 1977) vol. 1 and 2.
• Cicero, M. Tulli. Letter to Octavian, Epistulae. W. S. Watt, ed. (Oxford, 1958) vol. 3, pp. 186 ff.
• Cicero. Epistulae ad M. Brutum. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ed. (Leipzig, 1988) pp. 95-132.
• Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma. GKW, vol. 6, nos. 7031-7040.
• Pseudo-Cicero. De proprietatibus terminorum. GKW, vol. 6, nos. 7024-7030.
• Petrarch. Canzoniere; in Rime, trionfi, e poesie latine. F. Neri, ed. (Torino, 1963) 2nd ed., 29-508.
• Petrarch. Poems 5 and 4, Rime disperse. Joseph A. Barber, ed. (New York, 1991).
• Petrarca, Francesco. Rime disperse. Angelo Solerti, ed. [Firenze, 1909].
• Petrarch. Rime, trionfi, e poesie latine. F. Neri, ed. (Torino, 1963) 2nd ed., 509-602.
• Ps.-Seneca. De remediis fortuitorum bonorum liber. F. Hasse, ed. (Leipzig, 1872) pp. 446-57.
• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1676, no. 5.
• Ullman, B. L. Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova, 1964) no. 62.
• Dutschke, Dennis. Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova, 1986) no. 86.
• Wilkins, E. H. Making of the "Canzoniere" and other Petrarchan Studies (Rome, 1951).
• Catalogo di una libreria che si trova vendibile in Venezia appresso Giambattista Albrizzi (ca. 1746), p. CCXXXVII, no. 118.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares; incipit: Marcus Cicero Publio lentulo Salutem plurimam dicit. Ego omni officio ac potius pietate erga te caeteris satisfacio omnibus. Mihi ipse numquam satisfacio [fol. 1r]; explicit: . . . uidebo tuosque oculos etsi te ueniens in medio foro uidero dissuaviabor. me ama. Vale. [fol. 94v]
• fol. 97r — Ps.-Cicero, Letter to Octavian; incipit: Si per tuas legiones mihi licitum fuisset que nomine meo [fol. 99r]; explicit: . . . nam si viuus ista subterfugere non potero, vnam cum istis vitam simul fugere decrevi. Scripta Ferrarie 1433 et die 4 Augusti. [fol. 97v]
• fol. 98r — Cicero, Epistolae; incipit: [G]audeo plurimum ac letor in ea te sententia esse ut nihil a me putes sine causa fieri [fol. 98r]; explicit: Itaque per tua sapientia si quis de me tibi alter dixit plus amico vestri quam hominibus inuidis credas. Vale. [fol. 99r]
• fol. 99r — Cicero, Letters to Atticus; incipit: Accepi Idibus sextilibus quattuor Epistolas a te missas vnam qua me obiurgas [fol. 99r]; explicit: . . . putes opus esse meo nomine litteras dari velim conscribas cures quam dandas. data xiiii kalendas septembris. [fol. 99v]
• fol. 100r — Cicero, Letters to Brutus; incipit: L. Clodius tribunus plebis designatus ualde me diligit [fol. 100r]; explicit: . . . eaque faciam que te uelle queque ad te pertinere arbitror. vi kalendas sextiles. [fol. 106r]
• fol. 107r — Ps.-Cicero, Synonyma; incipit: [C]icero Lutio Venturio Suo Salutem. Collegi ea que pluribus modis dicerentur [fol. 107r]; explicit: Finis Synonimorum ex Cicerone. Ferrarie mccccxxxiii et die Lune v Octobris deo gratias. Amen. [fol. 113v]
• fol. 114r — Ps.-Cicero, De proprietatibus terminorum; incipit: Polliceri et permittere hoc inter est quod permittimus rogati pollicemur vltro. [fol. 114r]; explicit: Vesperum neutri item est secunde declinationis. Finis. Deo Gratias. Amen. M. Tulius Cicero. Ferrarie 1433 et die nono Septembris. Venit Sigismundus Imperator et stetit x diebus. [fol. 123v]
• fol. 124r — Homily on Luke XXI; incipit: In terris pressura gentium. Luce xxi caput, posita in superiori predicatione, statu primo antecedente iudicium supra predicatio [fol. 124r]; explicit: . . . qui fecit status persecutionis antichristi a quo nos liberet Christus hic per gratiam et in futuro per gloriam. Amen. Explicit Venetiis 1434 et die lune v Aprilis [fol. 125v]
• fol. 125r — Homily on Mark XVI; incipit: Surrexit Marci vltimum caput, et in Euangelio hodierno honestum per plurimum viri preclari existimarunt [fol. 125r]; explicit: . . . cuius resurrectionis consortia mereamur in presenti per gratiam et in futuro per gloriam. Explicit Venetiis 1434 et die Martis vi Aprilis. deo gratias petrus de carbonibus. [fol. 125v]
• fol. 126r — Petrarch, Sonnets, Index
• fol. 127r — Petrarch, Canzoniere; incipit: Voi chascoltate in rime sparse il suono [fol. 127r]; explicit: . . . Homo et uerace Dio/ Chaccolgal mio/ Spirto ultimo in pace. Amen. [fol. 196r]
• fol. 196r — Petrarch, Rime disperse, poems 4 and 5; incipit: Quel cha nostra natura in se piu degnio [fol. 196r]; explicit: . . . ella si mostre acerba et fiera/ Humel amante vince donna altiera. [fol. 197v]
• fol. 199r — Petrarch, Trionfi; incipit: Nel tempo che rinoua i miei sospiri [fol. 199r]; explicit: Or che fia dunque a riuederla in cielo [fol. 216v]
• fol. 218r — Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum bonorum liber; incipit: Liber cunctorum poetarum carmina gremium tuum semper [fol. 218r]; explicit: . . . Nemo extra ictus vulneris positus cum ducime explebeya domo in ma // [fol. 218v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Catalogue entry glued in
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: "Cmrm 1676 No. 5"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookseller's notes in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Catalogue entry glued in
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: "Cmrm 1676 No. 5"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookseller's notes in pencil
• Flyleaf 8 verso — Bookseller's note: "folio b7"