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

Title

Porcelii poetae clarissimi et oratoris Ortographia.

Authors

• Pandone, Porcelio, approximately 1405-approximately 1485
• Pandone, Porcelio, approximately 1405-approximately 1485

Other related names

• Simonetta, Cicco, 1410-1480, dedicatee (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018049945)
• Parisino, D. Andreas, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 840
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931779833503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122636239
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3f18sf93

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1460

Place

Italy

Summary

Brief treatise by Porcelio Pandone addressed to Cicco Simonetta, a statesman in the ducal chancery of Milan, on the origin and use of money in antiquity (f. 3r-10v), followed by a longer unidentified treatise on the subdivision of grammar dealing with spelling and with the nature and value of letters and their combinations (f. 12r-83r), attributed here to Pandone. The preface of the first treatise (f. 3r-4v), here titled De sextertio et talento (De sestertio et talento), differs from the edition printed in 1459 (with the title Opusculum aureum de talento) in having a second sentence that refers to the Orthographia and being dated 1460 rather than 1459.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author from rubric (f. 3r).
   
• 1. f.3r-10v: De talento et sextertio / Porcelius -- 2. f.12r-83r: Ortographia.
   
• Incipit/explicit of first work: Et si duram mihi provinciam humanissime vir Cicce Pollio tradidisti (f. 3r) ... Tu humanissime mi Pollio cum meliora inveneris poetae tuo Porcelio impartiare (f. 10v).
   
• Incipit/explicit of second work: Orthographiam ex quatuor grammaticae partibus unam esse nemo inficiatur (f. 12r) ... Quia placuit magis consuetudine conprobari (f. 83r).
   

Extent

86 leaves : 167 x 117 (92 x 70) mm bound to 167 x 120 mm

Foliation

Paper, 86; [1-86]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary vellum; small fragments of an earlier manuscript leaf with Latin text in Gothic rotunda script are adhered around the sewing supports to strengthen the spine.

Layout

Written in 17 long lines; ruled in ink.

Decoration

One four-line and two three-line iIlluminated white vine-stem initials in gold on blue, red, and green grounds (f. 3r, 4v, 12r) with borders on the left margin; rubricated initials, headings, and underlining.

Script

Written in humanistic script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by D. Andreas Parisino, (signature, f. 3r, 83v, 85v).
   
• Sold by Ernesto Immelen (Rome), 1952.
   

Subjects topical

• Money--Early works to 1800
• Latin language--Orthography and spelling--Early works to 1800
• Latin language--Orthography and spelling
• Latin language
• Money

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• treatises
• illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• Illumination
• Paper
• Italy
• Grammar

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 3r
• fol. 3r — Owner signature, f. 3r
• fol. 3r — Owner stamp, f. 3r
• fol. 4v — Illuminated initial, Initial T, f. 4v
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 12r
• fol. 42v — Manicule, f. 42v
• fol. 83v — Owner signature, f. 83v
• fol. 85v — Owner signature, f. 85v