Item Summary

Miscillany of works by St. Basil the Great, Francesco Barbaro, Lucian of Samosata, Leonardo Bruni, Xenophon, Antonio da Rho, and Niccolò Calvino.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Regula] ... [etc.].
Call Number
Princeton MS. 107
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcb27749174
Publisher
[Tortona, Italy], [between 1477 and 1500]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1477-1500
Format
Manuscript
Extent
56 leaves : paper ; 231 x 170 (127 x 97) mm bound to 235 x 176 mm.
Provenance
Purchased in 1970 by the Princeton University Library using funds donated by Christian A. Zabriskie (d. 1970) from William Salloch, Ossining, New York (Acc. no. AM 20124). A commemorative Princeton bookplate is on the inside front cover.
Source Acquisition
Gift; Christian A. Zabriskie, 1970.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages 334-336.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1r-5r: [Regula]
2. fol. 5r-12v: Apologia de rerum grecarum disciplina et earum interpretatione / Franciscus Barbarus. Letter in praise of the study of Greek written to Lorenzo de' Monaci.
3. fol. 12v-15r: [Charon, sive Contemplantes]. Translated from Greek into Latin by Rinucci d'Arezzo.
4. fol. 15r-34v: [Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum].
5. fol. 34v-45v: [Hiero, sive De rege]. Translated from the Greek by Leonardo Bruni.
6. fol. 46v-47r: [Birth records]. Records for 12 children of the Calvino family born between 1452 and 1477.
7. fol. 47v-52r: [Letter from Antonio da Rho to the Genoese jurist Andrea Bartolomeo Imperiale, circa 1392-1450.
8. fol. 52r-53r: [Letter from Niccolò Calvino to Battista de Campofregoso].
9. fol. 53v-54r: [Notes on the Calvino family]. Includes extracts from Suetonius, Livy and other ancient texts.
10. fol. 54v: [List of contents for the manuscript]. List includes two missing items.
11. fol. 55r-56r: [Account of the Calvino family history from ancient Rome to medieval Tortona]. Incomplete at beginning.
Notes
Incipit: [Regula] "Basilii philosophi christianissimi monochi greci liber ad Gregorium de fuga seculi et de uita monastica traductus per sanctum virum fratrem Ambrosium Camaldulensem ..." -- [Apologia] "Fata uiam inuenient et cetera. Id est Apologia de rerum grecarum disciplina et earum interpretatione." -- [Charon] "Luciani opusculum e greco in latinum per Rinucium factum incipit et primo prohemium. Sepe et multum ..." -- [Dialogi] "Leonardi Aretini liber qui est Collatio Colucii et aliorum quorundam de preconio trium uatum florentinorum, eiusdemque Vrbis Florentie." -- [Hiero] "Xenophontis philosophi tirannus ex greco in latinum traductus per leonardum aretinum. Xenophontis philosophi quendam libellium ..." -- [Letter from Antonio da Rho] "[L]egum doctori eruditissimo peritissimoque domino Andree Imperiali ex ducalibus consiliariis frater Antonius Raudensis ..." -- [Letter from Niccolò Calvino] "Illustri et excelso Genuensium Duci domino Baptiste de Campo fregosio Nicolaus Cauinus seruus sibi deditissimus se commendat." -- [Notes] "Infra scripta sunt quedam que reperi de nominibus et familia caluinorum que olim Rome claruit." -- [List of contents] -- [Account] "quę et te latere nolui Nam Titus Liuius in viiii ab Vr[be] con[dita] in principio statim ait, Sequitur hunc annum nobilis Caudina pax ..."
Explicit: [Regula] "... et lacrimis diuinum adiutorium ad ea perficienda que studiose proponit. Finis." -- [Apologia] "et fidei mee semel uel tacitus imposuisse abiiciam aut ferre recusem. Vale xv kl. octobres." -- [Charon] "... atque uitam cuiusque examinari necesse est. Finis." -- [Dialogi] "... ipso quoque Roberto ad pontem ueterem Colucium prosequente. Finis. Deo gratias amen." -- [Hiero] "Felix enim cum sis, nemo tibi inuidebit. Amen. Finis." -- [Letter from Antonio da Rho] "Vale iterum et deum cole. Raudensem uero dilige." -- [Letter from Niccolò Calvino] "... et Nicolai seruuli tui memento. Darthone iiiio nonas decembres." -- [Notes] "T. Liuius libro ab vrbe condita nono non longius ab initio inquit. Sequitur hunc annum nobilis clade Romana Caudina pax T. Vetrurio Caluino spurio postrumio Consulibus in reliquis." -- [List of contents] -- [Account] "... et commenda me optimę uxori tuę nepotesque tuos meis uerbis saluere iube. Darthone."
Ms. composite codex.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 56 ; catchwords ; quires signed ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 29 long lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written primarily by one scribe, a second scribe (perhaps Niccolò Calvino) wrote fol. 52r-53r, 54r, and 55r-56r ; watermarks.
Decoration: Texts open with 4- to 5-line initials in red and/or blue with blue and red penwork decoration extending into the margins. One similar 2-line initial marks the beginning of the text after the prologue.
Origin: Written in Tortona, Alessandria not before 1477.
Binding Note
Later binding. Italy, 18th century. Red, blue and ochre marbled paper over paper pasteboard.

Discovery Information

Subject
Monasticism and religious orders—Rules—Early works to 1800
Greek language—Study and teaching—Early works to 1800
Dictators—Early works to 1800
Calvino family—Early works to 1800
Monacis, Lorenzo de -1428—Correspondence—Early works to 1800
Fregoso, Battista 1453-1504—Correspondence—Early works to 1800
Antonio da Rho active 15th century—Correspondence—Early works to 1800
Calvino, Niccolò active 15th century—Correspondence—Early works to 1800
Imperiale, Andrea Bartolomeo Imperiale active 15th century—Correspondence—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
116

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/524b1c03-322a-4a66-923c-987b1b20c7e3/manifest