Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 78

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  • Other Form of the Shelfmark :
    • MS 078
    • Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 78
    • CCCC MS 78
    • Parker Library MS 78
  • Held at : Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
  • Languages : Latin, English, Middle (1100-1500)
  • Author : Dominicus Bandini (1335?-1418)
  • Date of Origin :
    • 1400 - 1499
  • Script :
    • in a clear ugly rather sloping hand
  • Support Material : Paper and Vellum
  • Composition :
    • ff. 236 + 2
  • Dimensions :
    • 287 x 408
  • Codicological details :
    • double columns of 57 lines
    • ff. a-b + i + 1-236 + ii + c-d
    • 1 vellum flyleaf, 1(12) (wants 1, 2) 2(12)-19(12) 20(10), 1 vellum flyleaf

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  • Résumé : 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.


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    Langue(s) des textes : latin, anglais


    Intervenants :

    Domenico di Bandino - author

    1r-236v - Domenico di Bandino, Fons memorabilium uniuersi (book 5, De uiris claris)

    Note : Begins imperfectly in an account of man in general. (De partibus humani corporis)

    incipit : (1r) Differt a muliere. Quia sexus non uariat speciem

    Note : The next sections are on Vir, Natura, Corpus, and on all parts of the body ending with Plante

    Note : (4r) De etatibus hominis

    incipit : (4r) Decursis hominum partibus contra etates ponende sunt

    explicit : (5r) Nunc ia(m) incepturus scribere particulares uiros inopiam (incipiam) ab inicio dolorum ac misseriarum gencium Primo (?) ab inicio peccati prothoparentum, seruato tamen ordine alphabeti, dicam igitur deo duce

    incipit : (5r) Abacuc propheta ut scribit Jeronimus in prefatione Abacuc

    Note : The writer makes constant reference to other compilations of his own: de montibus, de ciuitatibus, de sectis hereticorum, de sectis philosophorum, de arboribus, de lapidibus et gemmis etc. etc.

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Notes

Data Source: Parker on the Web

  • Research: The work is a portion of the Fons Memorabilium Universi of Domenico di Bandino d' Arezzo (d. circa 1413): a huge compilation in five parts, of which this is the fifth: never printed. See Tiraboschi VI 713 (763).
  • Research: An article which suffices to identify the work is that on Bandinus of Arezzo, the author's father. A long account of the work is given by L. Mehus, Ambrosii Camaldulensis Epp. etc., I cxxx sqq. Other characteristic articles are on: Acursius, Azo marchio Estensis, Barlaham Calaber, Blanchi, Boccacius Joh., Bonifacius Octauus, Bonifacius (Fazio degli Uberti), Brunettus Latinus, Caham, Castrucius, Cimabue, Collucius Pyerius, Dantes (who, with Boccaccio and Petrarch, is frequently quoted), Dinus de Garbo, Dominicus (the author: qui longis lugubratiunculis plurium annorum curriculo laborauit limpidum facere fontem haustu reficientem sapido sicientes), Farinata, Franc. Petrarcha, Gebellinus, Giottus, Gonella petri, Guido Cavalcanti, Guido Guerra, Guido de Monte feltro, Ioh. Boccatius. The authorities quoted include Moyses Anglicus (metrical Hist. Troiana), Lactantius on the Thebais of Statius, Marco Polo, Plutarch, Tacitus, Caesar, Livy, Eutropius, Florus, Val. Max., Frontinus, Statius, Virgil, Ovid, (Burley) de vita et moribus philosophorum, Gellius, John of Salisbury, (Alani) Anticlaudianus, etc. Tacitus is mentioned on f. 106v as frequently citing Cluvius. The text is very incorrectly written.
  • Additions: On the first flyleaf (f. iv) (xv): de partibus humani corporis de etatibus hominum.
  • Additions: On the last (f. iir): Sensus miratur que racio dicere nescit J. ℞. 1462. Quomodo Virgo parit et homo factus deus extat Desere quod sentis verum mirabile credas Namque fides prestat fidei tua racio cedit Vel. Desere persuasum credens mirabile verum Namque fides prestat fidei quoque racio cedit. Witt hath wunder that reson ne tell can hogh maiden is moder and god is i made man Leve thi reson and beleve the wunder for bileve is above and reson is vnder.
  • Additions: In red at bottom of 236v: con(?)taui istos xx fafuos sabbato Jnuoca me 4or temporum.
  • Additions: The headline throughout is De viris claris.
  • Additions: (ff. aar-aav) In the book is a rough draft of a letter to a Dominus Johannes, dated ex granata ciuitate florentissima ydibus sextilibus by tuus Ihouanes pagol. The writer of it has heard that he has been reported dead, and begs that the rumour may be contradicted.
  • Additions: The last article is on Lupus episcopus.

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