Now that most of us have almost given up writing by hand, one's admiration grows for those who can recognize from the faults the handwriting of people long dead. It is one of the scholarship's more recherché specialities.
From the clever people at Autografi dei Letterati Italiani we discover that several jottings in a Vatican Library copy of Cicero, Vat.lat.3246, were put there by one Antonio Beccadelli (1394-1471), a humanist poet and diplomat. Beccadelli, nicknamed Il Panormita, had an income as a courtier that allowed him to acquire his own library.
The codex is one of six put online this week in the first working week of the library's digitizations for 2019.
Before starting the list, I'd like to announce a private achievement: This week I published The Great Stemma: A Graphic History in the Fifth Century as an open-source edition. It's the scholarly counterpart to my recently published book Mind's Eye which tells the discovery story of a neglected Latin chart of history. Spread the word: I am depending on friends to enlarge the readership of both.
And now for the list:
From the clever people at Autografi dei Letterati Italiani we discover that several jottings in a Vatican Library copy of Cicero, Vat.lat.3246, were put there by one Antonio Beccadelli (1394-1471), a humanist poet and diplomat. Beccadelli, nicknamed Il Panormita, had an income as a courtier that allowed him to acquire his own library.
The codex is one of six put online this week in the first working week of the library's digitizations for 2019.
Before starting the list, I'd like to announce a private achievement: This week I published The Great Stemma: A Graphic History in the Fifth Century as an open-source edition. It's the scholarly counterpart to my recently published book Mind's Eye which tells the discovery story of a neglected Latin chart of history. Spread the word: I am depending on friends to enlarge the readership of both.
And now for the list:
- Ross.259, a de luxe manuscript from Paris of Augustine of Hippo's letters. Beautiful filigree work by Jacquet Maci in the illumination (see Mirabile):
- Vat.lat.2476, Gentilis de Fulgineo on Avicenna's medical writings, 15th century
- Vat.lat.3246 (Upgraded to HQ), ninth-century copy in a Caroline hand (thanks @gundormr for correcting this) of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, formerly owned by Antonius Beccadellus (1394-1471), and Fulvio Orsini (1529-1600), according to Mirabile. In binding paper with some Beneventan writing.
I don’t think https://t.co/nvxFdwgGFC.3246 is in a Beneventan hand. The text is a nice Caroline, there seems to be just a Beneventan binding fragment (see the edges of the guard leaves, front and back)
— AaronM (@gundormr) January 13, 2019 - Vat.lat.4116 (Upgraded to HQ), a 15th century manuscript of Defensorium ecclesiasticae potestatis by Adam de Eston (1330-1397) (thanks Mirabile) with these amazing border designs:
- Vat.lat.4354, a compilation of Franciscan Order resources from about 1430, see Mirabile
- Vat.lat.4517, with an anonymous Latin grammar from fol 22, incipit Coelum et terra sunt plena (listing by G. L. Bursill-Hall)
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