Pliny the Younger — 15th century; Italy, Ferrara

Title

Pliny the Younger — 15th century; Italy, Ferrara

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 144

Place of origin

Italy, Ferrara

Date

15th century

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

paper

Physical extent

ii + 146leaves

Hands

Humanistic script. From fol. 38r written by Hieronymus de Stabellinis( Pächt and Alexander ii. 397)

Decoration

Good border

Good initials

Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

Provenance

Partly written by Hieronimus de Stabellinis; his ex libris, fol. 145v.

Perhaps used by Ludovico Carbo to prepare the editio princeps of 1471: the manuscript contains the edition's dedicatory epistle to Borso d'Este(perhaps an addition: Pächt and Alexander ii. 397); text possibly corrected by Carbo (Dora Johnson, 'The Manuscripts of Pliny's Letters', Classical Philology, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan., 1912), 66-75 at 73).

Arms, fol. 2: parti per fess azure and gules, overall a lion's paw natural accompanied by two eight-pointed stars or (unidentified)

Fol. 2: 'Ego Horatius Fuschusemj hunc librum Julijs duobus cum dimidio' (early 16th century); see also MS. D'Orville 179

Jacques Phillippe D'Orville of Amsterdam (1690–1751).

Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, his son, by descent

Jean D'Orville, son of Jean, by descent

Sold to the Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/6–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Title

'Caij Plinij Secundi Nouicomensis oratoris facundissimi Epistolarum liber primus [etc.] feliciter incipit.'

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 144

Summary

The words 'Hieronymi de Stabellinis codex 'on fol. 145v in the rubricator's hand seem to show for whom the MS. was written, and whose are the arms painted on fol. 2.

Lodovicus Carbo wrote on fol. 1 an autograph dedication of his printed edition of Pliny's Letters (1471) to Borsius duke of Modena, and therefore probably used this MS. for the edition: 'Ego Horatius Fuschus emj hunc librum Julijs duobus cum dimidio' (early 16th cent.).

Date

written in the 15th cent. in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On paper, with an illuminated capital

Physical extent

146 Leaves