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Title

Latinae linguae elegantiarum compendium ... etc. manuscript, ca. 1455.

Authors

• Dati, Agostino, 1420-1478, author.
• Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457, attributed name.

Other related names

• Butler, Charles, 1821-1910, former owner., former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner., former owner
• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.a.102
(Washington DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=128888

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

Contains Elegantiolae, Dati's popular manual on the grammar and style of Latin, attributed in manuscript to Lorenzo Valla; a section of text from Orosius's Histories against the Pagans; and a short treatise on punctuation.

Notes

• Leaf 29 is blank
   
• Title supplied by cataloger from title page (leaf 2r).
   
• Contents of work written on second front endleaf: Laurentii Valla Elegantiarum linguae Latinae liber / Orosius de situ regionum / De punctandi genere.
   
• Uniform Title: [Elegantiolae]
   

Extent

Leaves ii (paper) + 44 + i (paper);; 230 x 145 mm

Collation

1 (2), 2-5 (10), 6 (2)

Signatures

Verso of last leaves of signatures 2-4 marked A-C.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Bound in diced Russia calfskin leather by R.P. Chilliat, ca. 1810, with gold tooling including the spine and turn-ins; with marbled endpapers and gilt edges.

Layout

Written in 27 long lines (dimensions of written space: 145 x 85 mm)̤; above line; ruled in lead: pricks for vertical lines, horizontal lines traced in ink; marginal notes in green and purple ink throughout.

Decoration

Title page has a marble edifice, with the inscription: Laurentii Vallae viri clarissimi latinae linguae elegantiarum compendium (leaf 2r); Coat of arms of the Schioppo family of Verona, with two putti (leaf 3r); Blue, red, green and gold major initials on leaves 3r and 30r; Alternating blue and red initials throughout 2nd work.

Script

Italian Humanistic Cursive script, late 15th century.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Phillipps; Charles Butler (bookplate); and W.T. Smedley (bookplate). Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.6
• The printing press as an agent of change. Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997, c1979, p. 52.
• Warner, Chris. "Quick Eloquence in the Late Renaissance: Agostino Dati's Elegantiolae." Humanistica Lovaniensia: The Neo-Latin Journal, v. 61 (2012).

Subjects topical

• Rhetoric --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Latin language --Punctuation --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Latin language --Terms and phrases --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Geography, Ancient --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Italy --Description and travel --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Italy --Verona
• Schioppo, Cristoforo, of Verona, scribe
• Chilliat, R. P. active early 19th-century, binder

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --Italy --Verona --15th century
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Coats of arms

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Geography
• Grammar
• History

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Contents of work written on second front endleaf: Laurentii Valla Elegantiarum linguae Latinae liber / Orosius de situ regionum / De punctandi genere.
• fol. 3r — Elegantiolae; incipit: Elegantiarum compendium clarissimi Laurentii Vallae.; explicit: ... studia complectere, et quae indies assequere ad excecitationi accommoda. Finis. (f. 28r)
• fol. 30r — Orosius's Histories against the Pagans [section]; incipit: Quoniam regionum situm scientiam hec ad intelligendas hystorias utile est descriptiones eas ponere duxi ...; explicit: ... dicitur Narbonensis, pares media Lugdunensis. Finis. (f. 41v)
• fol. 41v — A short treatise on punctuation.; incipit: Positivia diffinit Isodorus esse figuram ad distinguendo sensus per cola, comata, et periodos ...; explicit: ... sursum versus dexteria ut notetur ad huic pendere vocabulum ad silabam quae sequitur. Finis. (f. 43r)
• fol. 43v — Notes

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, W.T. Smedley
• Inside front cover — Book label, From the Collection of Charles Butler
• fol. 2r — Title page has a marble edifice, with the inscription: Laurentii Vallae viri clarissimi latinae linguae elegantiarum compendium
• fol. 3r — Coat of arms of the Schioppo family of Verona, with two putti
• fol. 3r — Blue, red, green and gold 4-line initial C
• fol. 30r — Blue, red, green and gold 3-line initial Q