Collection, made by Nicodemo Tranchedini, of tracts, letters and poems; seven originally separate sections. Italian, c. 1465–70.

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Title

Collection, made by Nicodemo Tranchedini, of tracts, letters and poems; seven originally separate sections. Italian, c. 1465–70.

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. misc. e. 81

Place of origin

Italian

Date

c. 1465–1470 (?)

Language

Latin

MS. Lat. misc. e. 81 – Part 1

(fol.1–19v) Franciscus Philelphus Letter to Pope Paul II, Sept. 1462

(fol.20) Franciscus Philelphus Rubric: Eulogium in Pium Secundum ecclesiae romanae pontificem

MS. Lat. misc. e. 81 – Part 2

(fol.22) Pius II Or. 45 (Ep. 397) 'Cum bellum hodie'

MS. Lat. misc. e. 81 – Part 3

(fol.38) Pius II Letter to Mehmed II

MS. Lat. misc. e. 81 – Part 4

Antonius Pellotus Poems

(fol.64) Incipit: ⟨V⟩irgilius capta patria sibi rure domoque

Incipit: ⟨Q⟩uantum coniugio felix Nicodeme domoque

Incipit: ⟨Q⟩uantum cyrreus letatur apolline collis

Incipit: ⟨N⟩on minus hospitibus patet hec uenerablis edes

Incipit: ⟨H⟩ac tibi lege meos liceat reprendere uersus

(fol.64v) Incipit: ⟨S⟩epe tuos repetens mecum uir maxime mores

Incipit: ⟨Q⟩ue nuper digitis ceciderunt carmina nostris

Incipit: ⟨Q⟩ueritis unde mouus fulgenti splendor ab ethra

(fol.65v) Incipit: ⟨T⟩er mihi corue uolans auguria fausta timenti

(fol.66) Incipit: ⟨Q⟩uo ferar extremi consumptus tabe doloris

(fol.69) Incipit: ⟨P⟩ace erat Augustus templis Numa lege Lycurgus

(fol.69v) Incipit: ⟨M⟩usarum decus egregium et noua gloria cyrre

Incipit: ⟨D⟩ulce tuum cupidus legi tetrasticon ad me

Incipit: ⟨F⟩orte Reparate Nicodemus ab dibus ibat

(fol.70) Incipit: ⟨U⟩ltimum uenit Nicodeme tempus

(fol.70v) Incipit: ⟨Q⟩uos habitare diu cupii saluete penates

Incipit: ⟨D⟩um mea seretur syrtes uitare malignas

(fol.71) Incipit: ⟨M⟩axime palladie cultor Francisce cohortis

(fol.71v) Incipit: Ut timet ora lupi pecus una relicta per agros

Incipit: Sfortigene Nicodeme ducis petis ora beatus

Incipit: Mustellis crocale blandior omnibus

Incipit: ⟨Q⟩uinque ego seruatus parmensis caseus annos

(fol.72) Incipit: ⟨Q⟩ui sine te inuitus uitales concipit auras

(fol.74v) Incipit: Si colis illius flicia numina supplex

(fol.75) Incipit: ⟨G⟩ratus eram quondam cybeli cybeleius atis

(fol.76) Incipit: ⟨V⟩iderat arquitenens arcum pharetramque uolucris

(fol.76v) Incipit: ⟨H⟩as ne uides caueis tectas Nicodeme uolucres

Incipit: ⟨S⟩i quisquam est cui me fatear debere Ficine

Incipit: ⟨H⟩unc sibi seruat Hymen lectum: temerare caueto

(fol.78) Incipit: ⟨F⟩rondibus unde nouis uario discrimine uocum

(fol.80) Incipit: ⟨I⟩lle uetus quondam Mecenas splendor equestris

Incipit: ⟨M⟩e mea rimosum Daris [?] iracunda uocauit

(fol.80v) Incipit: ⟨I⟩te procul muse si nil mihi carmina prosunt

Incipit: ⟨A⟩spice quisquis ades niue miracula dextr

Incipit: Si duo prima magis gentile carmina constant

Incipit: ⟨ M(?) ⟩arule quem παντων charis alma φιλοτερον ὑιον

(bottom of fol.81v) Incipit: ⟨R⟩ubescant quamuis circum tua tempora cani

(fol.82) Incipit: ⟨C⟩lam loqueris multis pellotum quod facis hecte

MS. Lat. misc. e. 81 – Part 5

(fol. 85) Antonio Geraldini Poems

Incipit: Ipse grandaeuum Cytherea proles

(fol.86) Rubric: Ad diuam Virginem Mariam quae Florentiae Nuntiata nuncupatur

(fol.87v) Rubric: Ad diuam Virginem Mariam quae Florentiae nuntiata cognominatur

(fol.88v) Rubric: Ad Marsilium Florentinum philosophum platonicum clarissimum

(fol.89) Rubric: Ad Ginum Coponem (sic) ciuem Florentinum de se B. M.

(fol.90) Rubric: Ad Antonium Posbonellum virum ingenui studii peritissimum

(fol.91) Rubric: Ad Antonium Posbonellum insubrem virum ingenuum

(fol.91v) Rubric: Ad Eundem Antonium

Rubric: Ad Gentilem Urbinatem uirum ingenuum epigrammatumque scriptorem

(fol.92) Rubric: Ad Bartholomaeum Scalam rei publicae Florentinae scribam peritissimum

(fol.93) Rubric: Ad Magnificum Petrum Medicem Florentinum optimatem de re P.B.M

(fol.94) Rubric: Magnifico uiro Petro Medici Florentino optimati de Patria B.M.

(fol.95) Rubric: Magnifico uiro Laurentio Medici Florentino primati

MS. Lat. misc. e. 81 – Part 6

(fol.97) Inscriptions

Rubric: Epigramma apud Aquileiam Antiquissimam Italie

Rubric: Epigramma apud Beneventum in quodam arcu triumphali pulchritudinis admirande ubi dicitur porta aurea

Rubric: In eadem urbe in basi unius domus

Rubric: Epigramma ad ęneam [Alexandri] statuam inspicientem celum et quantulumque[sic] solo incumbentem ex phida fabrissculptore[sic] perinclyto

(fol.97v) Rubric: In quodam Virgilio antiquissimo Octauio Caesari

Rubric: Ouidius

(fol.98–98v) Collection of epitaphs on Virgil

(fol.98v–99) Rubric: Item de titulo Virgilii quatuor uersibus

(fol.99v) Note on Cicero

(fol.100) Inscription

Ausonius Epigr. III (X)

(fol.103) Rubric: Pro Diua Hyppolita filia Francisci Sforci Pompeius Bononiensis

(fol.104v) Rubric: Ad Diuam Lucretiam Alfonsi Regis Amicam Pompeius Bononiensis

(fol.107) Rubric: Epitaphium Iacobi Picenini

Rubric: Divo Ferdinando Regi Pompeius Bononiensis de eius laudibus

(fol.111) Rubric: Pro Porcellio nummis exhausto

(fol.111v) Rubric: De pontifice Calisto et Pio et Paulo

Rubric: De po⟨n⟩tificum temporibus

Rubric: De puella picta

Rubric: Quid placeat plus an Roma an Parthenope

Rubric: Ad Iulium: Pom.

(fol.112) Pompeius Bononiensis Letter

(fol.113) Rubric: Idem Pompeius pro quadam puella in puero acensa

(fol.114v) Rubric: Contra Succam

Rubric: Pro Aenea

(fol.115) Rubric: Ad laudem Pauli pont. max. Pompeius Bononiensis

(fol.116v) Rubric: De Amore Primo

(fol.117v) Rubric: Addere materia conueniente modis

(fol.118) Rubric: Libros quos Rome habeo

MS. Lat. misc. e. 81 – Part 7

Gentile Becchi Poems

(fol.120) Rubric: Cur hoc Volumine

Rubric: Quod Amor amantem amare compulerit

Rubric: Quod iussu Cosmi Villicus duobus trabem bobus traxit quam uix quattuor ante mouerat

Rubric: Sub statua Iudith Leofernem interimentis sub pedibusque bracchia quedam prementis

(fol.120v) Rubric: Dimittens Laurentium meum quem ab adolescentia institueram

Rubric: In Aquilinum qui moderna non quia mala sed quia non antiqua improbabat

Rubric: De quadrireme quam Pio pontifici Florentini dederunt ad cuius fabricam videram per arnum materiam sine ductore labi illique fabrum quattuor pro tribus aptare remos

(fol.121) Rubric: Nomen quadriremis Victoria alludens ad patris Siluii matrisque Victorie nomina

Rubric: In scriptum signo pacis quod Anuntiare[sic] rex Francie dederat ex voto

(fol.121v) Rubric: Quod casus tabule quam crus fregisse Ia. Picinino dicebant illum claudum ad patrem Nicolaum claudum demiserit

Rubric: Dum referretur Habrahe sacrificium in quo Isahac personam puer agebat quem Antonius pedico deperibat

Rubric: Dum mihi in munus aureum Vopisco togam ille multis ego paucis gratias egeram

(fol.122) Rubric: In promotione Caroli de Medicis ad ecclesiam pratensem

Rubric: In Laurenti portu ad arni hostia

Rubric: Cur non ederet de anima Landinus ad Ficianum[sic] excusatio

Rubric: Post titulum sepulti

(fol.122v) Rubric: Ad Petrum Alamannum qui non exscribenda sed scripta epigrammata petebat

Rubric: Quot voluptates Ro. Martellus dicebat se in Florentino templo captare

Rubric: Mittens candelam benedictam Iuliano post dimissionem Leurentii

(fol.123) Rubric: Excusatio de his que dabantur vicio Pio pon[tifici (?)]

Rubric: Laus Cosmi ex invectiva Philelphi

(fol.123v) Rubric: Cum primum coram Galeatio postea Ipolite et Sfortia fratre Florentini leones nihil uenationis edidissent excusatio

Rubric: Ad Reverendissimum Cardinalem Papiensem de his libellis in laudem Campani

Rubric: Cur potius Papia alii Papiensis

(fol.124) Rubric: Laus Peregrini Allii ex nominibus in quosdam suos uersus ad Cos.

Rubric: Ad Franciam canonicatum querentem

Rubric: Epithaphium Siciliani equi in littore Pisano sepulti quem dono Laurens erat habiturus

(fol.124v) Rubric: In ortis Cosmianis sub statua cuiusdam gerentis capite poma cum obducta circum pudibunda veste

Rubric: Cauendum ne quid amplius petam

Rubric: E Platone de stella suo dum viueret

Rubric: Mortuo

(fol.125) Rubric: Ut benefitium quod cum cura uacabat consequerer

Rubric: Ad Nicodemum Tranchedinum

(fol.125v) Rubric: Mittens Varonem[sic] de origine lingue latine ad Peregrinum Alludens ad nomina [i.e. to Pellegrino Allio]

Rubric: Pro Epythaphio Cosmi

Rubric: Ex aditu Lucretie ad balnea aque lex

(fol.126) Rubric: Dum edificaret Carolus exceperat domi Hieronymum laborantem morbo calculorum quos ille marmora appellabat

Rubric: Sub statua Dauid ceso Gulia in arca Cosmiana ad animandos pro patria ciues

Rubric: De seditione Florentina quae in nuptias Jo. Tornaboni affinis Petri de Medicis sumpta filia Luce Pithii qui diuerse factionis princeps extiterat finiit

Rubric: Mittens imaginem Cosmianam in sulphure excusatio materie

(fol.126v) Rubric: Ad limen Laurentis templi

Rubric: Mittens vitulam in festo die sancte Cecilię cuius plebem in ciuili victoria fueram consecutus. Ediderat autem iisdem ferme diebus Vitellus quidam versus de gemma arbore pro Cosmo secundam pro Petro fingens ad P. Med.

(fol.127) Rubric: Obierat Iohanni de Medicis filius Cosmus nomine. Obiit et Petro Francisco alius eiusdem nominis. Monendum censui ne amplius illi parem aliquem facerent quem etiam nomine solum esse fata uoluissent

Rubric: Ad Anuntiatam dum mercatores quorum insigne aquila aurea est ad illius curam sumendam accederent

(fol.127v) Rubric: Ad Cosmianum sacellum in cuius prima parto Magi in secunda angeli canentes in tertia Maria partum adorans ut corde uerbo et opere adeuntes sacrificarent pingebatur

Rubric: Ad marmorariam tabernam dum Carolus Aretinus sculperetur

(fol.128) Rubric: Mortuo Cosmo ostendit ciuitas quid illi obierit. Docoxere enim plures quod cum uerius uiri laudem exprimeret quam statua quam decreuerant hoc ad Io. et B. dysticon

Rubric: Ad hostium[sic] librarię taberne Vespatiani

(fol.128v) Rubric: Cum aliquem ex Florentinis Pontifex peteret cum quo tractaret de pace missus est Otho Nicolinus cui alterum deerat brachium

Rubric: Cur tam crebre decoctiones fierent

Rubric: Cum sine militaribus signis in Florentinos Colio arma mouisset tuereturque se menibus Fauentinis de peste quae exercitum inuaserat

(fol.129) Rubric: Discedens Florentia Roman[sic] Carolus de Borboni qui in conuiuio pomum aureum Lucretie indignanti Marie dixit se loco illius cor relinquere

Rubric: Ad L. unde illi uxor ducenda

Rubric: Sub imagine Danthis

(fol.129v) Rubric: Hieronymus Ranucius medicus bononiensis sepius mihi per iocum illud Platinensis retulerat. Coram dicere pontifice. Accessit non multo post orator sue patrie quae cum esset suspecta pont⟨ifici⟩ monui ne in omnibus Platinam uellet referre qui male orando passus fuerat carceres Adriane arcis

Rubric: Dum ponuntur porte Laurentis templi ex aere nuper in etruria invento

Rubric: Sub imagine Giannotii aurati et laureati

(fol.130) Rubric: De sepulchro Laurentii de Medicis quod esset in Laurenti templo et utrinque patens

Rubric: In aulum

Rubric: Sub imagine diui Laurentii

Rubric: Victo Hercule Estense dum sub Colione militaret

Rubric: Franciscus Norus Antonio patri sepulchrum posuerat ac super statuam gestantem capite aquam benedictam hocque Epythaphium manibus tenentem

(fol.130v) Rubric: Prope Saluianum templum rem agenti cum uxore uillico in scrobe quam fodiebat ita egesta tellus superruit ut pene abruti sint

Rubric: Sub uersibus Platinensis quos in laudem Reverendissimi domini Papiensis ineptius ediderat quam soleret alludens simul ad id quod cum nescisset prius coram pontifice fingere fuerat missus in carcerem

Rubric: Cur Florentinorum arma in nuptias desierint

(fol.131) Rubric: Quod iussum dystichon de chyrotecis amissis amiseram

Rubric: Epythaphium Marci hystrionis Pisani

Rubric: Pro Papiensi ad Campanum

Rubric: Excusatio quod in quodam ad Reverendissimum d. Papiensem uersu “ras” syllabam producendam breuem posueram

(fol.131v) Rubric: Ad hoc ipsum Volumen in Anticatonis formam

Form

codex

Support

Paper. Watermarks: cardinal's hat cf. Briquet 3369; flower cf. Briquet 6597; tower cf. Briquet 15911; star in circle cf. Briquet 6068.

Physical extent

1 + 132 leaves

Hands

seven originally separate sections each by a different scribe

Decoration

Spaces left for a rubricator.

Binding

Contemporary Italian binding of brown morocco tooled with rope pattern and other designs and with inlet roundels, much repaired. Remains of four leather ties.

Acquisition

Bought from E. P. Goldschmidt, cat. 19, no. 229, 1929.

Provenance

On fol.1 are the initials N.TR. in red, on either side of a green laurel wreath containing a shield bearing a double-headed black eagle: these are the arms of Nicodemo Tranchedini of Pontremoli (1411–1481), who for long periods represented the Dukes of Milan as an ambassador, especially in Florence and Rome. For a summary of his career see E. Lazzeroni ‘Il Viaggio di Federico III in Italia’ in R. Dep. Stor. Pat. per la Lombardia, Atti e Memorie del Primo Congresso Storico Lombardo, Milan, 1937, p.327 n.174. He was a close friend of Cosimo de' Medici, was granted Florentine citizenship in 1449 and had a villa at Montughi outside Florence. Several MSS. he once owned bear his arms and initials done in the same style as in our MS.: eg. MSS. Florence Riccard. 541, 827, 834 (Nicodemo's letter book), 873, 1205; Bibl. Nazionale II.X.31, which is a humanistic miscellany in several hands including poems dedicated to Nicodemo; Milan Brera A.H.XII.16.

‘Al molto magnifico et R. sig. mio osservandissimo Il sig. Crispolto Bruschi. Todi’ (fol.132 (flyleaf)): this appears to be in the same hand as the additions on fol.101 and possibly fol.21v and 119. There is a similar note on the first flyleaf, and on fol.119 is written ‘1608 Chrispoltus’ in the same hand as the addition on fol.63v.

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