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Title

Authors

• Gaspare, da Verona, approximately 1400-1474 (https://lccn.loc.gov/no91014181)

Other related names

• Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, former owner
• Gordan, John Dozier Jr., former owner
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr99022084)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50078542)
• Libri, Guillaume?, 1803-1869, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n91076026)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms46.shtml

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Northern Italy

Summary

This is a Northern Italian manuscript from the second quarter of the fifteenth century, which contains Gaspare da Verona's De temporibus pauli II, liber V.

Notes

• Formerly Gordon MS 19
   
• Contemporary corrections in a second hand, possibly that of Gaspar himself
   
• On fols. 7r-v ten lines of text deliberately effaced: qui si scelera quorumdam iudicum resciuisset actutum pontifici maximo significasset dicerem nisi a prolixitate abhorrerem dicerem inqua nominatim et iniustitias et uicia et eorum nomina explicarem// quid enim de rebus hisce pontifices scire possunt. . . Eleven lines later on the same folio five lines are erased: melius meliusque consulent et medebuntur// sed de his satis. On folio 8r two lines have been erased: . . . in palatio sanctissimi Domini nostri noctesque diesque uersati// De corona seu ut alii appellant. . .
   

Extent

Foliation

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

One four-line illuminated initial with intertwined branchwork extending halfway down the inner margin, fol. 1r; three- or four-line gold initials throughout; guide letters extant; marginalia throughout

Script

Provenance

• Written in Italy, possibly in Rome, in the second half of the fifteenth century; early provenance uncertain; it has been conjectured that this is the manuscript once in the Biblioteca Nazionale at Florence described in the inventory of the Magliabecchiana collection (MS XXXVII, 103) written during the second half of the seventeenth century; this manuscript was subsequently reported as lost in that collection's 1883 reorganization; the catalogue entry from the Magliabecchiana states: "De temporibus clementissimi pontificis Pauli II Quintum uolumen per Gasparem Veronensem; cod. chart. in-4o, scr. saec. XV, serico rubro tectus. In adversa tituli parte sequentes versus adnotati sunt: Sunt deleta meis quedam, derosaque chartis: Magnatum imperium, qui sic uoluere, peregi." before giving an incipit of the first fifteen lines of the text and a brief description of the content (G. Zippel, ed., Le Vite di Paolo II di Gaspare da Verona e Michele Canensi [L. A. Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, III, pt. 16] (Città di Castello, 1904) xii.); Gordan MS 19 is written on parchment rather than paper, and lacks the distich opposite the title, but otherwise corresponds to the inventory description; Zippel conjectures that the manuscript was stolen by Guglielmo Libri (xii) who then sold it to Payne; Andrews concurs that Phillipps could have bought it from Payne, although the manuscript was not located in the Payne and Foss catalogues from this period (7-8); Sir Thomas Phillipps' catalogue (Phillipps n. 6944, in ink on f. 1r) lists this MS under a heading "Ex Bibl. Miscellanies", with the notation "(Payne)" and no date (Andrews 7); Phillipps' sale (London 1935) to E. P. Goldschmidt, Cat. 39 (Dec. 1935), n. 82. Obtained from Maggs by Howard Goodhart (bookplate), and given by him to Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate) in 1995
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), no. 19.
• 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, no. 19.
• Dunston, A. J. "Pope Paul II and Humanists," Journal of Religious History 7 (1972/3) pp. 287-306.
• Gaspare, Michael Canensius, and Giuseppe Zippel. Le vite di Paolo II di Gaspare da Verona e Michele Canensi. Città di Castello: Coi Tipi dell'editore S. Lapi (1904) .
• Andrews, Avery. "The 'Lost' Fifth Book of the Life of Pope Paul II by Gaspar of Verona," Studies in the Renaissance 17 (1970) pp. 7-45.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• History
• Pontifical
• Illumination

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Gaspare da Verona, De temporibus pauli II, liber V; incipit: Cum ob suspicionem pestis Roma abire statuissem diuque cogitasse mecum quo locorum me conferre commodius possem. [fol. 1r]; explicit: Quod facile fiet Paulo secundo intercedente, cuius clementia miseros et exules christi cultores perire non sinit, presertim generosos ne ob fidem christianam qui magnates esse consueuerunt desperatione tabescant. FINIS. [fol. 11r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Phyllis Walter Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Bryn Mawr College Library bookplate "From the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordon '35"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: "1995 Gordon Library 83"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in pencil: "7769"
• fol. 1r — Four-line illuminated initial C
• fol. 1r — Phillipps number in ink: "MSS Ph 6944"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Note in pencil: "1995 Gordon Library 83"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in pencil: "7769"
• Inside back cover — Note in pencil: "15937"