Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 166: Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo, Disputatio de pace et bello, Epistolae et Orationes
Description
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 166 is an manuscript written in an Italic hand, probably made in Rome in the late 1460s or shortly afterwards. The first part, ff. 1-74, contains the work on peace and war by Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo, Disputatio de pace et bello and his Oratio ad suscipiendum iustum bellum contra Turcum. The rest of the book contains transcripts of letters between Rodrigo and the humanists of the Roman Academy, such as Bartolomeo Platina and Pomponio Leto, during the time of their imprisonment in Castel Sant'Angelo in 1468-9. Rodrigo, later to become bishop of Calahorra, was the governor of Castel Sant'Angelo. It is not known how such a book came to England. In the sixteenth century it was owned by Thomas Godsalve, notary public of Norwich, and in 1567 by Peter Hobard of Dennington. The book is decorated with one large initial in gold with white branch work, and a few smaller initials of the same type.
- Contents
- Disputatio de pace et bello -- Oratio ad suscipiendum iustum bellum contra Turcum -- Letter of George of Trebizond to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to George of Trebizond -- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina -- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina -- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina -- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina -- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina -- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina -- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Pomponio Leto -- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Pomponio Leto -- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Lucido Fazini to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Lucido Fazini -- Letter of Lucido Fazini to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Lucido Fazini -- Letter of Lucido Fazini to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Antonio Caffarelli to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Agostino Maffei to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Agostino Maffei -- Letter of Agostino Campano to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Agostino Campano -- Letter of Agostino Campano to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Agostino Campano -- Letter of Agostino Campano to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Agostino Campano -- Letter of Agostino Campano to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo -- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Pope Paul II --
Bibliographic information
- M.R. James Date
- xv
- Downloadable James Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:zg018th6813/MS_166.pdf
- Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
- https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gc844mz2793/166.pdf
- Contains
-
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo and Bartolomeo Platina, Disputatio de pace et bello. 1r-63r
- Nasmith
- Roderici [de Arevalo episcopi] Caligaritani disputatio de pace et bello. 1r-63r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Bartolomeo Platina
- Note
-
Item 1 has a very good initial in gold with white branch work, and grounds of green, red, blue, dotted with white, extending up and down the L. side. Smaller initials of the same type occur at the divisions of no. 1 and at the beginning of 2
The divisions of no. 1 are
(1r) Prologue
(2v) Platyne tractatus de laudibus pacis
(15v) Rodorici Commendatio armorum
(45r) Secunda pars
Most of this section is in a hand approaching Italic
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo, Oratio ad suscipiendum iustum bellum contra Turcum. 63r-74r
- Nasmith
- Ejusdem oratio exhortatoria ad bellum in Turcas suscipiendum. 63r-74r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Note
-
Hanc orationem excipit SYLLOGE EPISTOLARUM, quarum notitiam ex rubricis codicis desumptam apposui
The first hand is resumed on f. 63r
- Letter of George of Trebizond to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 74v-75v
- Nasmith
- Epistola doctissimi viri Georgii Trapezuntii ad Rodericum episcopum et castellanum, in qua eum plurimum commendat, et deplorat incommoda captivitatis suae, et precatur eundem episcopum ut significet causas suae incarcerationis et calamitatis. 74v-75v
- Author
- George of Trebizond
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to George of Trebizond. 75v-79r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici episcopi et castellani ad eundem Georgium Trapezuntium, in qua ostendit causas suae captivitatis, et arguit eos qui obloquuntur et detrahunt principibus, quare concilium salubre dat eidem Georgio ut quam ocius liberetur. 75v-79r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 79r-79v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Platinae ad Rodericum episcopum Caligaritanum, castellanum S. Angeli, exhortatoria, ut ad eum in carcere vinctum scribat consolationum remedia contra vincula, dolores corporis et alias mundi molestias. 79r-79v
- Author
- Bartolomeo Platina
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina. 79v-84r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici episcopi et castellani consolatoria, ostendens hujus seculi flagella medicinam esse et signa verae salutis, et quod plurima bona pariunt tales adversitates, presertim dolor corporis, vincula quae animum non laedunt praesertim sapientis, et hortatur ad constantiam. 79v-84r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 84r-85r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Bartolomei Platinae ad Rodericum castellanum, quem plurimum laudat de doctrina et humanitate ad miseros, et agit gratias de remediis ad ejus infelicitates. 84r-85r
- Author
- Bartolomeo Platina
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina. 85r-86v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici castellani ad Platinam responsiva, arguens amicum assentantem simul et laudantem, et ostendit propter quae verae laudes dicantur. 85r-86v
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 86v-88v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Bartolomei Platinae ad Rodericum castellanum, in qua miserabiliter conqueritur contra fortunam, quae eum bonis artibus deditum suis percusserit malis, quod attribuit iniquae suae constellationi, et desperare videtur. 86v-88v
- Author
- Bartolomeo Platina
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina. 88v-92r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici episcopi et castellani ad eundem Platinam responsiva, in qua agit quomodo catholice loquendum sit de fortuna et fato, et quod astra non necessitant ad hosce sinistros eventus. 88v-92r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 92r-93r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Bartolomei Platinae ad eundem Rodericum castellanum, deplorans infirmitates captivitatem et infortunia sua, quae dicit non posse curari verbis. 92r-93r
- Author
- Bartolomeo Platina
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina. 93r-95v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici episcopi et castellani responsiva, quod licet aliquid dolores corporis intellectum impediunt, qui tamen intense Deum amat et speculativis intendit, non sentit has passiones corporis, et de causis quare boni has molestias patiuntur. 93r-95v
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 95v-97r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Bartolomei Platinae ad eundem Rodericum castellanum, in qua superatum se asserit rationibus castellani, manent tamen aliquae molestiae reliquiae, quibus petit adhiberi consolationis remedia. 95v-97r
- Author
- Bartolomeo Platina
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina. 97r-101v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici episcopi et castellani ad eundem Platinam responsiva, in qua dicit praedictas reliquias passionum et infelicitatum humanarum difficulter curari posse, veluti ex debilitate et pronitate ad malum provenientes, et tangit egregie omnes passiones animi, adhibens contra illas remedia. 97r-101v
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Bartolomeo Platina to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 102r-103v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Bartolomei Platinae ad eundem Rodericum castellanum, eum commendans de doctrina et humanitate, tandem exhortatur ut scribat, quo antidoto possit curare passiones animi, videlicet gaudium, spem, dolorem et metum, et quid opponatur istis passionibus, et unde oriuntur. 102r-103v
- Author
- Bartolomeo Platina
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Bartolomeo Platina. 103v-111v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici Caliguritani ad Bartolomeum Platinam responsiva, primo eum commendat de elegantia sermonis, tandem agit de singulis animi passionibus, et de earum ortu, et quid eis opponatur, et de medela ad eas curandas, et de quibusdam utilitatibus quas in animum afferunt. 103v-111v
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 111v-113r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Pomponii oratoris eloquentissimi ad Rodericum episcopum et castellanum, in qua commendat quaedam opuscula ejusdem episcopi, presertim libellum ab eo editum de peste an fugienda sit. 111v-113r
- Author
- Pomponio Leto
- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 113r-114r
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Pomponii ad eundem Rodericum episcopum de laudibus, signanter de clementia sanctissimi domini nostri Pauli II. 113r-114r
- Author
- Pomponio Leto
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Pomponio Leto. 114r-115v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici episcopi Caliguritani ad Pomponium, in qua eum consolatur de calamitatibus, et quomodo virtus crescit in adversis. 114r-115v
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 115v-117v
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Pomponii ad eundem Rodericum episcopum, in qua agit gratias de solamine epistolarum suarum, quibus se adjutum plurimum dicit. 115v-117v
- Author
- Pomponio Leto
- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 117v-119v
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Pomponii ad eundem Rodericum episcopum et castellanum, in qua plurimum commendat tractatum per eundem episcopum editum contra Basilienses et contra electionem per eos factam ad papatum in personam Amodei. 117v-119v
- Author
- Pomponio Leto
- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 119v-120r
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Pomponii ad eundem Rodericum episcopum, in qua etsi solitudinem dicit peculium poetarum, solitudinem tamen cum reclusione non laudat. 119v-120r
- Author
- Pomponio Leto
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Pomponio Leto. 120r-122r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici episcopi et castellani responsiva ad eundem Pomponium, in qua solitudinem veluti aptam contemplationi et otio plurimum laudat, et quomodo sapiens non est solus, nec menti angustia obest. 120r-122r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Pomponio Leto to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 122r-124r
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Pomponii ad eundem Rodericum episcopum, in qua dicit solitudinem esse utilem cum libertate sed molestam cum captivitate, et lamentatur de ejus reclusione. 122r-124r
- Author
- Pomponio Leto
- Letter of Lucido Fazini to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 124r-124v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Lucidi Latini ad Rodericum episcopum et castellanum excusatoria quod non scripsit, et exhortatur ut ilium calamitosum suis literis consoletur. 124r-124v
- Author
- Lucido Fazini
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Lucido Fazini. 124v-126r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici castellani ad Lucidum, in qua eum consolatur exhortaturque ad patientiam in adversis et animi magnitudinem omnem fortunae impetum superantem. 124v-126r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Lucido Fazini to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 126r-126v
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Lucidi ad eundem castellanum, in qua agit gratias de antidotis consolationum suarum et iterum exhortatur ut ad eum scribat. 126r-126v
- Author
- Lucido Fazini
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Lucido Fazini. 126v-130r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici ad eundem Lucidum, in qua ait eum tam mirificas laudes non mereri, et ibi pulchra contra adulationem; tandem pulchra adducit de retribuendo benefactoribus, rursus scribit ei certa consolationis genera quae omnem moestitiam levant. 126v-130r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Lucido Fazini to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 130r-133v
- Nasmith
- Epistola ornatissima Lucidi ad eundem Rodericum castellanum de laudibus suis, in qua brevi virtutes et opera ejus narrat. 130r-133v
- Author
- Lucido Fazini
- Letter of Antonio Caffarelli to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 133v-135v
- Nasmith
- Oratio Cafarelis ad Rodericum episcopum et castellanum, in qua eum plurimum commendat, signanter de humanitate erga omnes cives Romanos quos in sua habet custodia. 133v-135v
- Author
- Antonio Caffarelli
- Letter of Agostino Maffei to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 135v-136v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Augustini Maffei Patricii ad Rodericum episcopum et castellanum, in qua eum laudat de doctrina et virtute, tandem transmittit ei libellum de gestis et opusculis ejusdem episcopi a Pomponio viro eloquentissimo editum. 135v-136v
- Author
- Agostino Maffei
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Agostino Maffei. 136v-138r
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Roderici episcopi et castellani ad eundem Augustinum, in qua indignum se ait tot praeclaris laudibus, easque pro monitione recipit, ut talis sit qualem describunt ipsi Augustinus et Pomponius. 136v-138r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Agostino Campano to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 138r-138v
- Nasmith
- Epistola eloquentissimi viri Agostini Campani ad Reverendum Patrem Rodericum episcopum Caliguritanum et castellanum, in qua quaerit an somnia habeant aliquid veritatis propter antiquorum exempla quibus legitur somnia maxima futura praenuntiasse. 138r-138v
- Author
- Agostino Campano
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Agostino Campano. 138v-143r
- Nasmith
- Epistola Roderici episcopi et castellani ad eundem Campanum responsiva, in qua pulchra de somniis adducit, specialiter septem causas propter quas omnia somnia hominibus accidunt. 138v-143r
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Agostino Campano to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 143r-144v
- Nasmith
- Epistola Campani ad eundem episcopum et castellanum, in qua plurimum epistolam precedentem commendat, et fatetur plene satisfecisse dubitationi suae erga somnia et effectus eorum. 143r-144v
- Author
- Agostino Campano
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Agostino Campano. 144v-146v
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem episcopi et castellani ad eundem Campanum, consolatur eum multipliciter propter carceris miserias, et adducit utilitates quae ex captivitate proveniunt, et quod sapiens captivus esse non potest. 144v-146v
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Agostino Campano to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 146v-148r
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Campani ad eundem episcopum et castellanum in qua eum commendat de humanitate et doctrina, et extollit opusculum a dicto episcopo editum de differentia principatus imperatoris et regis. 146v-148r
- Author
- Agostino Campano
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Agostino Campano. 148r-148v
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Roderici episcopi ad eundem Campanum, in qua eum exhortatur ut librum ab eo editum de monarchia perlegat, et si quid dignum reprehensione viderit, emendet. 148r-148v
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Letter of Agostino Campano to Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo. 148v-149v
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Campani ad eundem episcopum et castellanum, in qua ultra carceris miserias febres et dolores pati conqueritur, et ni antidotis consolationum ejusdem episcopi adjutus esset, putat eum obiisse. 148v-149v
- Author
- Agostino Campano
- Letter of Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo to Pope Paul II. 149v-150v
- Nasmith
- Epistola ejusdem Roderici episcopi ad Sanctissimum Dominum Paulum II. regratiatoria promotionis suae ad ecclesiam Zamorensem. 149v-150v
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo, Thanksgiving oration to Pope Paul II. 150v-151v
- Nasmith
- Oratio ejusdem Roderici episcopi et castellani ad eundem sanctissimum Dominum Paulum II. in visitatione ejusdem pontificis, gratias agens de translatione ad ecclesiam Caliguritanam. 150v-151v
- Author
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo
- Note
- The table, in Italic hand, is on f. 152r
- Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo and Bartolomeo Platina, Disputatio de pace et bello. 1r-63r
- TJames
- 97(2)
- Stanley
- I. 5
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/dm445hx1898
- MS 166
- Repository
- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction:
- Images courtesy of The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For higher resolution images suitable for scholarly or commercial publication, either in print or in an electronic format, please contact the Parker Library directly at parker-library@corpus.cam.ac.uk
- License:
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC).