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Add MS 6891
- Record Id:
- 032-002029087
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029087
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000225
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 6891
- Title:
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Dante Alighieri, De Monarchia
- Scope & Content:
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The manuscript contains:
ff. 1r-17v: Dante Alighieri, De Monarchia. Begins: 'Omnium hominem quos ad amorem'. Ends: 'spiritualium et temporalium gubernator. Explicit Monarchia Dantis Aldigerii de Florencia cuius anima requescat in pace. Amen'. For another copy, see Add MS 28804.
ff. 18r-20v: Bull of Pope Clement VI (Unigenitus) to Ortolf von Weisseneck, Archbishop of Salzburg, altering the interval for a jubilee from 100 to 50 years; Avignon, 15 Kal. Sept. anno 8 (18 August 1349). Contemporary copy, in Latin.
Decoration:
Red or blue initials with contrasting blue or red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002029087", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 6891: Dante Alighieri, De Monarchia" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029087
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029087
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_6891 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1330
- End Date:
- 1370
- Date Range:
- Mid 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 260 x 185 mm (text space: 180/190 x 115/120 mm).
Foliation: ff. 21 + v. Folios i-ii are modern paper endleaves at the front, and ff. iv-v are the same at the back. Folio iii is a parchment endleaf at the front.
Collation: i10 (ff. 1-10), ii12-1 (ff. 11-21; 12th leaf excised after f. 21).
Script: Gothic (ff. 1r-17v: Italian bookhand; ff. 18r-20v: Italian chancery-style hand).
Binding: Post-1600. Italian, 17th-century vellum binding, gilt-stamped, with the remains of two silk ties.
- Custodial History:
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Francisco Amadi of Venice (d. 1566): inscribed with his name (ff. 1r, 20v).
Purchased from William Baynes, bookseller, December 1825: note on unfoliated front endleaf.
- Publications:
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Le Opere di Dante: Testo Critico della Società Dantesca Italiana, ed. by M. Barbi and others (Florence: R. Bemporad, 1921) [on the text].
'Monarchy', Dante, trans. and ed. by Prue Shaw, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996) [on the text].
'Monarchia', Dante Alighieri, ed. by Prue Shaw, Le Opere di Dante Alighieri, 5 (Florence: Casa editrice le lettere, 2009) [on the text].
Diego Quaglioni, 'Un nuovo testimone per l’edizione della Monarchia di Dante: il Ms. Add. 6891 della British Library', in Laboratoire Italien: Politique et Societé, 11 (2011), 231-80.
Claudia di Fonzo, Tra Diritto Teologica ed Esegesi Antica (Naples: EdiSES, 2012), pp. 1-12.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)