Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 078: Domenico di Bandino, Fons memorabilium uniuersi (book 5, De uiris claris)

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Title:

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 078: Domenico di Bandino, Fons memorabilium uniuersi (book 5, De uiris claris)

Alternate Title:

Dominicus de Bandino Aretinus de Viris Claris

Language:

Latin and English, Middle (1100-1500)

Extent:

ff. 236 + 2

Dimensions:

408 Height (mm) and 287 Width (mm)

Approximate Date:

[ca. 1400 - 1499]

Table of contents:

Fons memorabilium uniuersi (book 5, De uiris claris)

Description:

CCCC MS 78 contains a fifteenth century copy of De uiris claris, the fifth book of Domenico di Bandino's (d. 1413) Fons memorabilium uniuersi. The Fons memorabilium is an encyclopaedia derived from a large number of classical and medieval sources and De uiris claris is dedicated to the study of man both as a biological entity and more generally, featuring a number of biographies of medieval and early renaissance figures. A letter written in Florence survives as part of the binding, suggesting that the book is of Italian origin, but how and when it came to Parker is uncertain.