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

Title

Le epistole

Authors

• Pseudo-Phalaris
• Griffolini, Francesco, 1418-1483

Other related names

• Malatesta, Novello, dedicatee

Call number

Ms. Codex 320
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915809213503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584776
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580921

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

14--

Place

Italy

Summary

The letters attributed to Phalaris, translated from Greek into Latin by the humanist Francesco Aretino (also known as Francesco Griffolini), and from Latin into Italian by an unnamed translator (perhaps Giovanni Andrea Ferabos, or Bartholomeo Phontio [or Fontio]?). Includes a dedication of Francesco Aretino to Novello Malatesta.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Title derived from text of dedication (f. 1r): L'epistole.
   
• Spine label: Phalari M.S.
   
• In the dedication (f. 1r), Francesco Aretino states that he translated the letters from Greek into Latin. Zacour-Hirsch mistakenly says that Aretino translated them from Greek into Italian.
   
• The translator who produced this Italian version is not named in the manuscript. Zacour-Hirsch suggests Giovanni Andrea Ferabos or Bartholomeo Phontio [or Fontio]; cf. the early printed Italian translations--1471, 1488, etc.--listed by S. F. G. Hoffmann, Lexicon bibliographicum, III, 214-215.
   
• Cover worn slightly at the edges. Various smudges and stains.
   
• The British classical scholar Richard Bentley (1662-1742) demonstrated conclusively that these letters cannot have been written by Phalaris but are much later in date.
   

Extent

67 leaves : 181 x 131 (129 x 83) mm. bound to 197 x 131 mm

Collation

Parchment, ii (paper) + 67 + i (paper); 1¹⁰(-1), 2-6¹⁰, 7⁸; [1-67]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. One leaf appears to be missing at the beginning of the first quire; might have been blank or contained a dedication, etc.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Vellum, with a gilded design on the spine; probably a bit later than the manuscript.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines; ruled in ink.

Script

Written in a single humanist book hand.

Provenance

• From the Macauley Collection.
   
• Accessioned (or given new accession number), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Classical literature.--Early works to 1800
• Greek literature.--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Literature -- Prose
• Italian
• Italy

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