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Add MS 74234
- Record Id:
- 032-003952971
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003952971
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100128185435.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161502591.0x000001
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 74234
- Title:
- Petrus Appolonius Collatius, Epistolarum liber ad Pium secundum Pontificem Maximum de exhortatione in Turchos
- Scope & Content:
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The main text in this volume is a poem by the Italian poet Petrus Appollonius Collatius (b. c. 1435, d. after 1500), also known as Pietro Apollonio Collazio (see https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-apollonio-massimo-collazio_(Dizionario-Biografico, accessed 2 September 2021). The work is composed of seven epistles, written in elegiac couplets, addressed to those attending the Council of Mantua in1459, including Pope Pius II (formerly Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini), the Emperor Frederick III (r. 1452-1493), Charles VII of France (r. 1422-1461), the Dauphin Louis, later Louis XI (r. 1461-1483), Ferdinand of Aragon (r. 1458-1494), King of Naples, and Francesco Sforza (r. 1450-1466), Duke of Milan. The text is published in S. Grosso and C. Negroni, Di P. A. Collazio Antico Poeta Novarese il Libro sin qui Inedito delle Epistole a Pio II per la Crociata (Novara, 1877).
The manuscript was written by the scribe Paganus Raudensis, who produced work for the Sforzas of Milan. He was associated with the humanist Francesco Filelfo (b. 1398, d. 1481), from whom he borrowed scribal mannerisms such as the papal-knot flourishes added to the initial ‘F’ (see de la Mare, ‘Scrittura e Manoscritti’ (1983), p. 402, no. 22, n. 24).
Contents:
ff. 1r-16r: Petrus Appollonius Collatius, Epistolarum liber ad Pium secundum Pontificem Maximum de exhortatione in Turchos.
f. 16v: Added text, in twenty-four lines terza rima verse, partly effaced. The verses and their author may link to the texts that followed in the original manuscript.
Decoration:
The decoration was probably undertaken by Ambrogio da Marliano, documented as active in Milan in 1461-1462, who worked on a copy of De Liberorum Educatione (now Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS T 7 sup.), composed by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini before he became Pope Pius II, and which was possibly copied for the children of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan. For more on this artist see Add MS 38897C, Add MS 71119C, Dizionario Biografico dei Miniatori Italiani: Secoli IX-XVI, ed. by Milvia Bollati (Milan, 2004), pp. 17-18 and Treccani, Dizionario Biograficodegli Italiani (https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/lucia-marliani (Dizionario-Biografico), accessed 2 September 2021).
A large gold initial on a white-vine panel, and a 3-sided white vine border in red, green and blue, with a blue shield containing the monogram of Christ, ‘IHS’, in gold in the upper border, and a shield with the arms of Pius II, surmounted by the papal tiara in the centre of the lower border in black, blue and gold (f. 1r).
Six illuminated white-vine initials, two-lines high (ff. 4v, 6v, 8v, 10v, 12v and 14v).
Headings and marginal titles in pink or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003952971
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003952971
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100161502591.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 160 (105 x 105) mm. 14 lines written in a single column, in brown-black ink, between two pairs of vertical and fifteen horizontal lines of drypoint ruling.
Foliation: ff. 16 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end).
Script: Humanistic.
Collation: i6 (ff. 1-6), ii6 (ff. 7-12), iii4 (ff. 13-16). Vertical catchwords (ff. 6v, 12v).
Binding: Modern binding, in parchment, with modern box in black morocco, tooled in gold.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy (probably Milan).
Provenance:
Pope Pius II, Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (b. 1405, d.1464, r. 1458-1464): dedicated to him, and the arms of his family, Piccolomini, surmounted by the papal triple tiara (f. 1r). The Piccolomini arms of Pius II also appear in Add MS 16423, f. 1, Add MS 39655, f. 1r, Burney MS 107, and Harley MSS 2683 and 2731. See Add MS 34276, ff. 38-40v, for Pius II’s letter ‘universis et singulis Christi fidelibus’ (imperfect at end), urging an expedition against the Turks.
The library of the Accademia Rubiconia dei Filopatridi at Savignano: see the manuscript description in Inventari dei Manoscritti delle Biblioteche d’Italia, ed. by G. Mazzatinti and others, 107 vols (1890- ), I (1890), p. 91, no. 33 (ff. 1-15 of the ff. 39 described), and P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963-1992; repr. 1977-1997), II (1967), pp. 146, 569. According to Strnad, ‘Studia Piccolomineana’ (1968), p. 384n, the present manuscript is identical with the Savignano manuscript, although there are minor discrepancies with the description provided by Mazzatinti, Inventari (1890).
Giovanni Cristofano Amaduzzi (1740-92), philologist, born in Savignano: in his possession according to Girolamo Tiraboschi, Biblioteca modenese o Notizie della vita e delle opere degli scrittori natii degli stati del ... duca di Modena , 6 vols (Modena: Societa` tipografica, 1781-1786), II, p. 48; Grosso and Negroni, Di P. A. Collazio Antico Poeta Novarese, pp. 39, 97 and Kristeller, Iter Italicum, p. 146.
Laurence Witten (1926-1995), American rare book dealer and collector of antiquities: sold to Marston in 1955, according to W.H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (1962), p. 73.
Thomas Ewart Marston (1904-1984), curator at the Yale University library: his bookplate and manuscript number 75; sold to Witten in 1974, according to Barbara A. Shailor and others, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University, 4 vols (Binghamton, 1987-1992), III, (1992), Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 100, p. xix.
Laurence Witten (1926-1995), American rare book dealer and collector of antiquities: sold at Sotheby’s, 9 December 1974, lot 45, to Gleeson.
Gleeson: purchased at the 1974 sale, according to Shailor, Catalogue (1992), p. xxii.
Giannalisa Feltrinelli (1902-1981): her bookplate (inside upper cover); purchased by the British Library at the Giannalisa Feltrinelli Library sale, Part II, Christie’s, London, 3 December, 1997, lot 152.
- Publications:
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S. Grosso and C. Negroni, Di P. A. Collazio Antico Poeta Novarese il Libro sin qui Inedito delle Epistole a Pio II per la Crociata (Novara, 1877).
P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963-1992; repr. 1977-1997), II (1967), pp. 146, 569.
A. Strnad, ‘Studia Piccolomineana’, Enea Silvio Piccolomini Papa Pio II. Atti del Convegno per il Quinto Centenario della Morte (Sienna, 1968), p. 384n.
A.C. de la Mare, ‘Scrittura e Manoscritti a Milano al Tempo degli Sforza’, Milano nell’etá di Ludovico il Moro (Milan, 1983), p. 402, no. 22, n. 24.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)