Manuscript, written by Antonio di Mario, of Jerome’s translation of ‘Chronici Canones’ by Eusebius, with the continuation by Prosper.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.5

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Scope and Contents

Subscription on folio 75 verso; ‘Ego Antonius Marii filius et Florentinus civis absolvi V. Idus Mai MCCCCXXVI quo tenpore ducalis illustrisque dominatio Venetorum simul cu(m) nostra repu(bli)ca Florentina colligatione facta pro earu(m) libertate tuenda adversus tyran(n)idem

Duce(m) Mediolanense(m) qui an(n)is iam elapsis iniquissime et iniuste contra dictam nostra(m) re(m) p(ublic)am Flo(renti)na(m) bellu(m) fecerat viriliter atq(ue)fortiter dimicabant Valeas qui legas’.

Dates

Creation: 1426.

Language of Materials

Latin

Extent

1 Volumes (ii (paper) + ii + 76 + i (paper) folios.)

Additional Description

Arrangement

[Add. Field length to be increased.]

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Vellum. Scottish binding of brown diced russia, early nineteenth century (reback), tooled blind and in gilt. Secundo folio: ‘-cris litteris explicauit’.

Custodial History

There are no marks of ownership before the ex libris of the Advocates’ Library (folio iii), dated 1773. Former press-marks: A.3.35 and 18.a.5.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Acquired in or before 1773.

Existence and Location of Copies

Microfilm available: Mf.Sec.MSS.91.

Related Materials

The manuscript is the earliest of five copies of Eusebius by Antonio di Mario, all similar in size and arrangement; the others are:

Vatican MS.lat.243 (written 1435);

Vienna Nat.Bibl.MS.344 (1437);

Florence Laur.89.5 (1440);

Florence Laur.S.Marc.362 (1452).

Apparently connected with Adv.MS.1.1.5 is a Eusebius in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS.285, of similar size and also written in 1426, though not by di Mario; cf. F Wormald and P M Giles, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1967, no.83, who suggest that both derive from a copy made by Poggio in 1408-9 (Florence Laur.67.15).

Bibliography

This is number 9 in the list of 42 signed manuscripts of Antonio di Mario given by B L Ullman, `The origin and development of humanistic script`, pages 99-104 (Rome, 1960). See pages 104-109 for a discussion of his script.