Manuscript, written by Johannes Fanconus (?), of the ‘Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri ix’ by Valerius Maximus, with the commentary of Dionigi di San Sepolcro, preceded by a list of chapters.

Item

Identifier: Adv.MS.1.1.7

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Scope and Contents

Subscription on folio 154: ‘Explicit excellens liber Egregii autoris Valerii maximi Romani sc(ri)ptus ad postulationem fr(atr)is martini de caranazio sacre pagi(n)e p(ro)fessoris Immeriti Oord(in)is [sic] heremitar(um) Scanti [sic] augustini doctoris lucidissini ticini sepulti. Eiusdem ord(in)is fuit h(uius) libri expositor vocat(us) frater dyonisi(us) de burgo s(an)c(t)i sepulcri sacre pagi(n)e celeb(er)rim(us) p(ro)fessor et episcopus bene merit(us) Nichopole(n)sis civitat(is). Scriptus p(er) Johanne(m) Fanconu(m) [?] omniu(m) sc(ri)bar(um)

p(er)gam(en)siu(m) minimum completus die xviiio Junii MCCCLXXXXIII. Deo Gr(ati)as Amen … Et b(e)n(e) correctus’; from ‘fr(atr)is’ to ‘civitat(is)’ is written in different ink, possibly by a different hand, over an erasure in which, apart from some isolated letters, can be read only (starting under ‘p(ro)fessoris’) ‘militis d. Balzari de pusterla curie’. On folio 31, at the end of ii.4, is added in the text by the first hand, ‘Iste lib(er) est strenui et spectabilis militis d. balzari d’ pustẽla’. This may refer to Balzarino Pusterla, condottiere of Gian Caleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan (died 1402) (cf. G B di Crollanza. `Dizionario Storicoblasomico delle famiglie italiane` (Pisa, 1886-90), ii 386).

Headings, underlining of lemmata, ornamentation of capitals, and some corrections are in red. Space is left for initials at the beginning of each section, but they have not been added. The text is written in textualis Gothica, the commentary in bastarda.

Secundo folio: of text ‘de cognitione eius’; of commentary ‘p cedenti in hoc ope’.

Dates

Creation: 1393.

Creator

Valerius Maximus (Person)

Language of Materials

Latin

Extent

1 Volumes (ii (paper) + i (modern vellum) + 154 + ii (paper) ff.)

Additional Description

Arrangement

Collation: 1-19eight, 20two. Signatures in small roman numerals in the lower right corner of the first recto of each gathering (preserved only in 5, 11-19). Catchwords parallel to the text, for text and commentary in gatherings 1-2, 10-18, for text alone in 4-5, for commentary alone in 3, 6-9. Pricking with a triangular awl on the edge of the text frame (gatherings 1-5, 10) or in the outer margins (elsewhere), from first recto to last verso of each gathering. Ruling mostly in ink (with a hard point in gatherings 16-17) on the flesh side only; no guide-lines. 3 columns (the centre one for the text, the others for the commentary). 37-43 lines in the text, 50-57 in the commentary. 390 x 285 mm., ruled are 275 x 235 mm.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Vellum. Scottish binding of brown diced russia, tooled blind, first half of nineteenth century, executed for the Advocates’ Library (rebacked, 1931).

Custodial History

On folio 154, after the text, is written in a seventeenth-century hand, ‘His adijci po(tes)t Andre Casalis exe(m)pl(u)m Bononie an.1636. Vrb. VIII. Pont.’ On f.ii is the ex libris of the Advocates’ Library, dated 1817. Acquired by the Advocates` Library in or before 1817. Former pressmarks: Jac.V.2.3 and 18.a.3.

Existence and Location of Copies

Microfilm available: Mf.Sec.MSS.92.

Bibliography

‘Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri ix’, edited by C Kempf (Leipzig, 1888).

Commentary of Dionigi di San Sepolcro (printed at Strasbourg[R-printer], undated.)