Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 078: Domenico di Bandino, Fons memorabilium uniuersi (book 5, De uiris claris)
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 78 contains a fifteenth century copy of De uiris claris, the fifth book of Domenico di Bandino's (d. 1413) Fons memorabilium uniuersi. The Fons memorabilium is an encyclopaedia derived from a large number of classical and medieval sources and De uiris claris is dedicated to the study of man both as a biological entity and more generally, featuring a number of biographies of medieval and early renaissance figures. A letter written in Florence survives as part of the binding, suggesting that the book is of Italian origin, but how and when it came to Parker is uncertain.
- Contents
- Fons memorabilium uniuersi (book 5, De uiris claris)
Description
Alternative title | Dominicus de Bandino Aretinus de Viris Claris |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 236 + 2 |
Date created | [ca. 1400 - 1499] |
Language | Latin; English, Middle (1100-1500) |
Material | Paper and Vellum |
Layout | double columns of 57 lines |
Height (mm) | 408 |
Width (mm) | 287 |
Collation | 1 vellum flyleaf, 1(12) (wants 1, 2) 2(12)-19(12) 20(10), 1 vellum flyleaf |
Writing | in a clear ugly rather sloping hand |
Foliation | ff. a-b + i + 1-236 + ii + c-d |
Research | The work is a portion of the Fons Memorabilium Universi of Domenico di Bandino d' Arezzo (d. circa 1413): a huge compilation in five parts, of which this is the fifth: never printed. See Tiraboschi VI 713 (763)., An article which suffices to identify the work is that on Bandinus of Arezzo, the author's father. A long account of the work is given by L. Mehus, Ambrosii Camaldulensis Epp. etc., I cxxx sqq. Other characteristic articles are on: Acursius, Azo marchio Estensis, Barlaham Calaber, Blanchi, Boccacius Joh., Bonifacius Octauus, Bonifacius (Fazio degli Uberti), Brunettus Latinus, Caham, Castrucius, Cimabue, Collucius Pyerius, Dantes (who, with Boccaccio and Petrarch, is frequently quoted), Dinus de Garbo, Dominicus (the author: qui longis lugubratiunculis plurium annorum curriculo laborauit limpidum facere fontem haustu reficientem sapido sicientes), Farinata, Franc. Petrarcha, Gebellinus, Giottus, Gonella petri, Guido Cavalcanti, Guido Guerra, Guido de Monte feltro, Ioh. Boccatius. The authorities quoted include Moyses Anglicus (metrical Hist. Troiana), Lactantius on the Thebais of Statius, Marco Polo, Plutarch, Tacitus, Caesar, Livy, Eutropius, Florus, Val. Max., Frontinus, Statius, Virgil, Ovid, (Burley) de vita et moribus philosophorum, Gellius, John of Salisbury, (Alani) Anticlaudianus, etc. Tacitus is mentioned on f. 106v as frequently citing Cluvius. The text is very incorrectly written. |
Additions | On the first flyleaf (f. iv) (xv): de partibus humani corporis de etatibus hominum., On the last (f. iir): Sensus miratur que racio dicere nescit J. ℞. 1462. Quomodo Virgo parit et homo factus deus extat Desere quod sentis verum mirabile credas Namque fides prestat fidei tua racio cedit Vel. Desere persuasum credens mirabile verum Namque fides prestat fidei quoque racio cedit. Witt hath wunder that reson ne tell can hogh maiden is moder and god is i made man Leve thi reson and beleve the wunder for bileve is above and reson is vnder., In red at bottom of 236v: con(?)taui istos xx fafuos sabbato Jnuoca me 4or temporum., The headline throughout is De viris claris., (ff. aar-aav) In the book is a rough draft of a letter to a Dominus Johannes, dated ex granata ciuitate florentissima ydibus sextilibus by tuus Ihouanes pagol. The writer of it has heard that he has been reported dead, and begs that the rumour may be contradicted., The last article is on Lupus episcopus. |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xv |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 24 |
Stanley | C. 2 |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jp649fd3131 |
Location | MS 078 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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