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Title

Della natura delle cose libri VI

Authors

• Lucretius Carus, Titus

Other related names

• Marchetti, Alessandro, 1632-1714, translator
• Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723, dedicatee
• Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, Baron, 1743-1823, former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 179
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5199129
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5199129

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

before 1746

Place

Italy

Summary

17th-century Italian translation of De rerum natura by Alessandro Marchetti, a generally anti-Aristotelian teacher of philosophy and mathematics at Pisa. Publication of this translation was forbidden in Italy, so it was still being copied by hand in the 18th century. The translation breaks off early in Book 4 (4.265, f. 146v, with a dangling catchword), followed by a final page of text from slightly later in Book 4 (4.384-394, f. 147v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

148 leaves : 155 x 104 (99-106 x 65-75) mm. bound to 164 x 120 mm

Foliation

Paper, 148; [i], 1-88, 90-148, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on each page, lower right corner.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th- or 19th-century parchment with T. Lucret Caro del Marchett in gilt on spine; ribbon marker.

Layout

Written in 13-22 long lines; outer margin marked by folding.

Script

Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Possible ownership inscriptions on title page and end of extant text, 1746 (f. 1r, 147r).
   
• Formerly owned by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (armorial bookplate, inside upper cover); sold at auction at Messrs. Evans (London), 1823, to bookseller Thomas Thorpe.
   
• Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 2571 (stamp on front flyleaf, label on spine).
   
• Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978.
   
• Appears in Kraus's List 203 (1983), no. 206.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 10.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of Amey Hutchins, Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Didactic poetry, Latin--Translations into Italian
• Philosophy, Ancient--Poetry
• Italian poetry--17th century
• Materialism--Early works to 1800
• Epicureans (Greek philosophy)--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Translations (documents)
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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