Giovanni Pontano, Giovanni Sagundino (?), Giovanni Mario Filelfo (?), Gregorius Tiphernus — 15th century, end; Italy, Venice

Title

Giovanni Pontano, Giovanni Sagundino (?), Giovanni Mario Filelfo (?), Gregorius Tiphernus — 15th century, end; Italy, Venice

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 211

Date

15th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

vi + 53 leaves

Hands

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 582)

Decoration

Fine border (fol. 1)

Fine initial

Acquisition

Acquired by the Bodleian in 1804

Provenance

On fol. 1 is a coat of arms party per fess or and azure, six cinquefoils pierced counterchanged: identified in Pächt and Alexander as arms of the Loredan family of Venice.

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 (1765/1766–1845): purchased from him by the Bodleian

Title

Latin poetry

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 211

Summary

Comprises:

(fol. 1). Colophon:--'Pontani poete liber explicit', Latin poems

(fol. 29v). Eight Latin poems apparently by Joannes Sagundinus, whose name heads the first

(fol. 34). Three Latin poems apparently by 'Marius Phi[losophus]', whose name heads the first

(fol. 35v). Five Latin poems by 'Gregorius Typhernus' (Gregorio Tifernas, a Greek)

On fol. 1 is a coat of arms party per fess or and azure, six cinquefoils pierced counterchanged.

Date

written perhaps in the first quarter of the 16th cent. in Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with an illuminated border on fol. 1

Physical extent

53 Leaves