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Title

Treatise on the gods, commentary on Virgil's Aeneid

Authors

• Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n86805621)

Other related names

• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr99022084)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50078542)
• Derschau, Hans Albrecht, Freiherr von, 1754-1824, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n99014985)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 16
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms16.shtml
• Goodhart: 61

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This is an early sixteenth-century Italian manuscript by Domizio Calderino, which includes two texts: a treatise on the gods and a commentary on Virgil's Aeneid. The manuscript is made of five or six different paper stocks, one of which is of a smaller size. The initials of the first words in each text division are in large majuscules outside the text block.

Notes

• Previously Goodhart 61
   

Watermark

Similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 14430; Similar to Briquet Tête de boeuf 15113; Similar to Briquet Fleur à sept pétals 6570; Similar to Briquet Fleur à sept pétals 6565; Similar to Briquet Fleur à sept pétals 6570; Similar to Briquet Lettres assemblées "P" 9608

Extent

I+399+i; 316 x 218 mm 290 x 197 mm bound to 325 x 240 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (10), 2 (8), 3-5 (10), 6-7 (12), 8 (10), 9 (14), 10-14 (10), 15 (12), 16-17 (10), 18 (8, -7 -8), 19 (12, -11 -12), 20 (12), 21 (8), 22 (6), 23 (10, -10), 24-30 (10), 31 (6), 32 (2), 33-34 (6), 35-37 (10), 38 (8), 39 (14), 40 (8), 41 (12), 42 (8)

Signatures

Several systems of signing, including numbers top center and top right rectos and leaf signatures lower right margins; inconsistent

Support

Paper

Binding

Rebound in dark brown twentieth-century quarter calf with tan cloth boards; gold-tooled title and Phillipps number on spine: "Parrhasius/ In Virgilium" and at the lower edge: "1292."

Layout

Single column, thirty-one to thirty-five lines, fols. 1-184 and 221-399 with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines in hard point, fols. 185-220 with single vertical bounding lines in ink

Decoration

Initials of first words in text divisions in large majuscules outside the text block

Script

Humanistic cursive

Related resources

• Kristeller, P.O., Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries (London, 1963-97), vol. 5, p. 223, no. 16.
• Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962. p. 435, no. 16.

Keywords

• Treatise
• Commentary
• 16th century
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Treatise on the gods]; incipit: Apud Aegyptios deorum genus primum fuisse fabulantur, nam conspicientes hunc mundi ornatum, admirantes quam universorum naturas duos esse deos et eos aeternos arbitrati sunt.; explicit: novum recentem et antiquissimum omnium, multo igni utentes, celerem motum facientem qui per alas et sagittas figuratur.
• fol. 19r — [Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid]; incipit: Cum Troiani et mari et terra agitati, sepulto Anchisa e Sicilia soluerent, ut in Italiam quae proxima et a fatis promissa erat, pervenirent Juno quae Carthaginem caput orbis facere instituebat.; explicit: vita anima, gemitu suspirio nam viro forti lachrimae non dantur, sed gemitus, sub umbras infernas. finis.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Note in upper margin in ink: "Phillipps MS 1292"
• fol. 1r — Phillipps Middle Hill stamp in lower margin
• fol. 1r — Note in lower left margin: "old no. 29"
• fol. 1r — In upper left margin in sixteenth-century hand "Iam(?) Parrhasii"
• fol. 1r — In upper right margin in sixteenth-century hand: "fol. 394"
• fol. 1r — In upper margin in pencil: "Parrhassius in Virgilium