Zeno of Verona, Hilary of Poitiers, Basil the Great, etc. Italian, mid-15th century

Title

Zeno of Verona, Hilary of Poitiers, Basil the Great, etc. Italian, mid-15th century

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. th. d. 28

Place of origin

Italian, North

Date

15th century, second quarter

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 119 leaves

Hands

Humanistic script

Decoration

Initials. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 791)

Provenance

‘Eximii et Excellentis viri praeclarissimique doctoris sancti Zenonis episcopi Veronensis tractatus varii sermonesque ad populum, excepti ex vetustissimo volumine Veronę a Guarino Veronensi viro eloquentissimo reperto in Episcopii Biblioteca’ (fol. 1)

Given by Timotheus of Verona (prob. Timoteo Maffei ) to the monastery of S. Maria della Carità, Venice, 15th century: Hic liber studio et cura.d.Timothei Veronensis habitus dono a quodam sacerdote per eum traditus est Monasterio caritatis qui legis ora pro eo et pro donatore (fol. iiv)

S. Maria della Carità, Venice: Statio huius libri est in quarta sede a latere claustri. Iste liber est monasterii caritatis (15th century, fol. 118v). MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 52 and Aberdeen, University Library, MS. 242 include inscriptions following the same form.

Erased ex libris of S. Bartolomeo, Vicenza, 15th century, given by Bartolomeus de Carpo ‘archipresbiter ecclesie vincentine’: ‘Iste liber est monasterii S.Bartholomei de Vincentia quem delegavit reverendus dominus Bartholomeus de Carpo archipresbiter ecclesie Vincentine’ (fol. ii verso)

‘… 3 marco 1498 promis (?) And… dario (?)’ (fol. ii)

‘No 17 Derschau [de Nuremburg ,’ see Cat. libr. mss. in Bibl. D.Thomae Phillipps, Middlehill, 1837, 15] and tab labelled ‘17’ (front inside cover)

Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), MS. 1291

Bought from Maggs, cat. 816, no. 164, 1953.