Notitia dignitatum, etc.; Switzerland (Basel), 1436
MS. Canon. Misc. 378
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Description
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Title
Notitia dignitatum, etc.; Switzerland (Basel), 1436
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Misc. 378
Place of origin
Produced at Switzerland, Basel; miniatures by a French artist, script and initials by an Italian (perhaps Paduan) scribe.
Date
1436
Language
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Physical extent
173 fols.
Hands
Humanistic script. The same scribe also copied a Terence at Basel in 1436, perhaps also for Pietro Donato (MS. Vat. Ottob. lat. 1368), with miniatures also by Peronet Lamy (see below).
Fols. 172v-173 written by Cyriaco d'Ancona.
Decoration
Important miniatures, after a Carolingian copy of a late antique MS., by Peronet Lamy. Fine initials. (Pächt and Alexander i. 666 and ii. 599, pls. LII and LVI)
Acquisition
Purchased by the Bodleian in 1817.
Provenance
Copied for Pietro Donato, at the council of Basel, 1436, from the 'Codex Spirensis', a Carolingian copy, preserved in the cathedral library at Speyer, of a late antique manuscript. Fol. 170: 'Exemplata est hec Cosmographia quę Scoti dicitur cum picturis ex uetustissimo Codice. quem habui ex Spirensi bibliotheca. Anno domini .M.CCCCXXXVI. mense Ianuario. Dum ego Petrus donatus dei pacientia episcopus paduanus uice Sanctissimi domini Eugenij paper .iiij. Generali Basiliensi Concilio pręsiderem'.
No. 209 in the inventory of Donato's books (P. Sambin, 'La bibliotheca di Pietro Donato (1380–1447)', Bolletino del Museo Civico di Padua 48 (1959), 53–98. His annotations throughout the volume.
Jacopo Soranzo, -1761.
Matteo Luigi Canonici, 1727–1805
Guiseppe Canonici, -1807
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Title
Notitia dignitatum, etc.
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Misc. 378
Summary
Fols. 3r-15v. Cosmographia
Fols. 15v-47v. Itinerarium prouinciarum Antonini Augusti
Fol. 47r. Lists of the hills and aqueducts of the City of Rome
Fols. 47r-62v. Dicuil, Liber de mensura orbis terrae
Fols. 62v-65r. Texts on the provinces
Fols. 65r-66ra. De montibus, portis et uiis urbis Romae
Fols. 67r-77v. De rebus bellicis
Fols. 78r–80r. Disputatio siue Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti Philosophi
Fols. 80v–84r. Notitia, siue Libellus de regionibus, urbis Romae
Fols. 84r–87r. Notitia urbis Constantinopolitanae
Fols. 87r–88r. De gradibus cognationum
Fols. 88v–170r. Notitia dignitatum omnium tam ciu⟨il⟩ium quam militarium
Fols. 170v–172r. Demensuratio suie de mensuratione provinciarum
Fols. 172v–173r. Gregory Nazianzus, De VII mundi spectaculis
The Greek and Latin excerpt on fols. 172v, 173 is in the hand of Cyriacus of Ancona, the author of the Latin translation.
Date
1436
Language
Latin
Modern Greek (1453-)
Physical extent
1 volume
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Collection contents
Canonici Miscellaneous
Notitia dignitatum, etc.
