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  • Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 205: Flavio Biondo, Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 205: Flavio Biondo, Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii

Description

Alternative title
Flavius Blondus
Type of resource
mixed material
Extent
ff. 202
Date created
[ca. 1442]
Language
Latin
Material
Vellum
Layout
36 lines to a page
Height (mm)
310
Width (mm)
223
Collation
1(10)-4(10) 5(6) 6(10)-20(10) 21 (six).
Writing
in a good Italic hand
Foliation
ff. i-ii + 1-202 + iii-iv
Provenance
Fol. 1r has a very fine full border of massive gold and colour, of characteristic Florentine work. Three times in the border occurs a blue shield with a representation of a barrel with a fire in it, set on an upright shaft upon a square base, and approached by a ladder. This is thought by George Williams, editor of the Correspondence of Bishop Bekynton (Rolls Series, I, xxxiii) to be the rebus of Thomas Bekynton (Beacon-tun), Bishop of Bath and Wells. Flavio Biondo (the author of the volume before us) was a correspondent of Bekynton's, and in a letter (I, p. 241) promises him a gift, which is probably this book. The letter in question was written at Florence in 1442.

Abstract/Contents

Summary
MS 205 contains a mid-fifteenth-century copy of Flavio Biondo (1392-1463), Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii probably made in Florence, c. 1442. Although Thomas James' catalogue records the presence of this manuscript in Corpus Christi by 1600, it does not appear in Parker's register. The volume appears to have been intended as a gift for Thomas Beckington (1390?-1465), bishop of Bath and Wells, who was a correspondent of Biondo.
Contents
Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii

Bibliographic information

M.R. James Date
xv (about 1442)
Downloadable James Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yn920sp9798/MS_205.pdf
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:hz522cw6398/205.pdf
Contains
  • Flavio Biondo, Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii. 1r-202v
    Author
    Flavio Biondo
    Note
    (1r) The initial has a half-length figure of a man in upright cylindrical red cap, and dark red robe, holding a book
    This MS. contains the Third Decade of Flavius Blondus's Historia ab inclinatione Romani imperii, beginning
    Incipit
    (1r) Laetanti iam mihi et exultanti
    Note
    (Decas III, Liber I, ed. Basel, 1559, p. 393)
    and proceeds to Lib. X of this Decade
    Then follow two books of a fourth Decade, of which the first is identical with the xith book of Decas III in the Basel edition. The second is inedited: an extract relating to a mission to Abyssinia is printed by G. Williams (Correspondence of Bishop Bekynton II, 227)
    The books begin as follows
    (22v) Liber II
    (42v) Liber III
    (60v) Liber IV
    (76v) Liber V (initial cut out)
    (92r) Liber VI
    (108v) Liber VII
    (125r) Liber VIII
    (139r) Liber IX
    (156v) Liber X
    Ending
    Explicit
    (172v) renouaturos expectare curauit
    Rubric
    (172v) Blondi Flavii Forliuiensis historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decadis quartae liber primus
    Incipit
    (172v) Interea dum principio anni cuius gesta
    Note
    Partial border with curious flourishing in silver
    Ends
    Explicit
    (189r) et in ueronensibus retenta
    Rubric
    (189r) Incipit quartae decadi(s) liber secundus foelicissime
    Incipit
    (189r) Annus hic primus et quadra[gra]gesimus supra millesimum et quadringentesimum
    Note
    Ends
    Explicit
    (202v) et pacis constituendae arbitrium audiendum cremonam conuocari curauit
    Note
    Each book has a fine initial on burnished gold (Liber IX on silver): and the first lines of each are in Roman hand
TJames
378
Stanley
Lib. ab Al. 2
Repository
UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
Location
MS 205

Access conditions

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