07237ntm a2200745 a 4500 9979828269203681 20260728094421.0 260206q14551475it 000 0 d (OCoLC)on1603144096 (OCoLC)1603144096 PAU eng amremm PAU lat grc Oversize Ms. Codex 2397 Appianus, of Alexandria, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81028285 http://viaf.org/viaf/100191244 De bellis civilibus. Latin [De bellis civilibus]. [Italy], [after 1455] 106 leaves : paper ; 315 x 230 (220 x 120) mm bound to 320 x 240 mm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 15th-century copy of Pier Candido Decembrio's Latin translation of Books 13-17 (presented as Books 1-5) of the Romana Historia, by the 2nd-century Greek historian Appianus of Alexandria, concerning the Roman civil wars from 146-70 BCE. An excerpt from Book 9, about the Illyrian people, is at the end of the manuscript (f. 103r-106v). Brief and frequent humanistic marginal notes through Book 1 and most of Book 2 (through f. 39r), with occasional marginal notes continuing into Book 4 (to f. 68r, with none after that). Latin. Title from spine. 1. f.1r-19v: Primus liber -- 2. f.20v-45r: Secundus -- 3. f.45r-60v: Tercius -- 4. f. 60v-81v:Quartus -- 5. f.81v-103r: Quintus -- 6. f.103r-106v: [Selections from the Illyric Wars]. Collation: Paper, i (18th/19th-century paper) + 106 + iii (18th/19th-century paper); 1-10¹⁰ 11⁸⁻²(-7, -8); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, [1-106]. Catchwords lower right last verso. Layout: Written in 52 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in lead, horizontals ruled in faint ink. Folio format. Script: Written in semi-cursive humanistic script by multiple hands. Decoration: 6 7- to 17- line initials in red with reserved designs at book divisions (f. 1r, 20v, 45r, 60v, 81v, 103r); one manicule (f. 91v). Watermark: Briquet Monts 11736 (Verona, 1450, 1456). Binding: Plain vellum over pasteboards with 18th/19th-century leather title-piece in gilt capitals (Appianus, De bellis civilibus, trans. P. Candidus, MS. XVth cen.) (Christie's); Appianus Alexand. written in ink at head of spine; Phillipps label (8080) and two auction labels (121 and illegible) at foot of spine. Origin: Written in Italy in the third quarter of the 15th century (after the death of Pope Nicholas V, intended dedicatee of the original translation, in 1455; supported by papermark). Formerly owned by English book collector Richard Heber. Offered at auction by Evans (London) as part of the Heber collection, 10 February 1836, lot 121 (spine label; Christie's). Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillips, his ms. 8080 (spine label, notes in ink inside front cover and f. 1r). Offered at auction by Sotheby's (London), 15 June 1896, lot 13 (Christie's). Offered at auction by Sotheby's (London), 6 June 1898, lot 29 (Christie's). Offered by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich) in Catalogus XVII Librorum universa Catholicarum et literarum et rerum studia, 10 May 1899, number 2235 (Christie's). Offered by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich) in Katalog 47 (Bibliotheca Slavica, 1909), number 356 (Christie's). Offered by A. Rosenthal Ltd. (London) in catalogue 1 (Secular thought in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1939), number 2 (Christie's). Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd. (London), catalogue 799 (1948), number 33 (clipping inside front cover) (Christie's). Purchased from Maggs Bros. by New York stockbroker and bibliophile Howard Lehman Goodhart, December 1948 (note of date of purchase on Maggs clipping inside front cover; leather book label inside front cover). Later owned by Renaissance scholar Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (1913-1994, New York; daughter of Howard Lehman Goodhart; B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1935, and M.A., Radcliffe College, 1938; founding member of the Renaissance Society of America, one of the first women admitted to membership of the Grolier Club, and trustee of the American Academy in Rome, the New York Public Library, and Bryn Mawr College), possibly after her father's death in 1951, her MS 78 (former spine label laid inside front cover, note in pencil in upper left corner of first flyleaf). Held on deposit in the Bryn Mawr College Library (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), possibly from Phyllis Goodhart Gordan's death in 1994 until 2025, BMC 87 (Christie's). Sold at auction at Christie's (London) in the collection of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, 10 December 2025, lot 29. Appianus, De bellis civilibus (Oversize Ms. Codex 2397). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania. Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 8080 (p. 122). Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 78 (p. 401). Listed in Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, volume 5 (1990), Phyllis Goodhart Gordan, number 78 (page 351). Illyrian wars Early works to 1800. Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C. Early works to 1800. Rome History Civil War, 68-69 Early works to 1800. Rome History Civil War, 49-45 B.C. Early works to 1800. Rome History Civil War, 43-31 B.C. Early works to 1800. codices (bound manuscripts) aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300224200 histories (literary genre) aat http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026358 Translations. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2025026022 Manuscripts, Latin 15th century. Manuscripts, Renaissance. Decembrio, Pier Candido, 1399-1477, translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84095727 http://viaf.org/viaf/7483748 Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90022989 http://viaf.org/viaf/5314321 Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542 http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081 Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99022084 http://viaf.org/viaf/78699777 Gordan, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, former owner. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84093220 http://viaf.org/viaf/64131789 Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. 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