Rare Books and Manuscripts

Primae notulae ad Luculli Ciceroniani recentiores recensendos, in A. BALBO, F. BESSONE, E. MALASPINA (a cura di), ‘Tanti affetti in tal momento’. Studi in onore di G. GARBARINO, Alessandria 2011, pp. 547-554.

by Ermanno Malaspina

Cum a viris doctis codices antiquissimi (praecipue corpus illud quod dicitur Leidense) recogniti sint et necessitudo... more Cum a viris doctis codices antiquissimi (praecipue corpus illud quod dicitur Leidense) recogniti sint et necessitudo inter eos iam ab Othone Plasberg et Petro Schmidt cognita explicataque sit, manent tamen ignota manuscripta post saeculum XII exarata, cum eorum lectiones ad textum recensendum minimi momenti esse visae sint omnibus.
Quae notitia de recentiorum fide nunc percepta adsensa fixa est propter collationes quas institui, libris et photographice depictis et undique collatis et saepius in bibliothecis ipsis inspectis: nam lectiones tales repperi quae raro in apparatu laudarentur, quae nequaquam non a corpore Leidensi aliquo rivulo manarent, quae numquam stilo Ciceroniano dignae esse viderentur.
Atqui hoc stemma manet mea quidem sententia opus non inutile ad necessitudines recentiorum illustrandas, siquidem philologis non tantum edendus textus antiquus, sed etiam ipsius historia perspicienda traditioque quae dicitur manuscripta recensenda est, in medio aevo et in litterarum renascentium diffusa saeculis.

Cum autem non liceat in hac commentatiuncula omnes codices singillatim percensere et stemma accuratius edere, ne tamen charta vacet, a me familiae saltem generaliter et confuse describantur: codicis F apographi iidem sunt ac librorum De
legibus: K, M, Bes, Chis1, Harl3, Laur1, Laur2, Reg, Ricc, Urb, Vat4, Vat6, quibus addendi sunt Chis, Erl et Pal, Pal6, Ven. Inter testes familiae quae originem a V ducit, artus manipulus et qui facile secernatur ex Gadd eiusque apographis componitur: Ball, Bon, Corv, Dresd1, Fes, Laur3, Yal, quibus Lond adiungimus. Aliquot restant qui auctore Schmidt textum F > Vat4 a Guarino emendatum continent: haec familia, in De legibus libris per triginta amplius codices diffusa, tantum in Ambr1, Ces, Ven1 superest, qui tamen scatent contaminationibus erroribusque.
In medium novissimos proferam Linc, Magl, Mon2, Par3, Par4, Scor4, mea quidem sententia cum Bert et Cant2, Glas, Gud (eiusque apographo Par5), Harl, Matr, Neap, Ott, Par, Par6, Par7, Par8, Par9, Parm, Pat, Schl, Trec coniungendos. Haec familia, quae multis erroribus qui coniunctivi dicuntur denotata est, originem quidem in libris De legibus e codice deperdito p implicatis tramitibus traxit, et inde e v. Nondum liquet quomodo huius familiae stemma in Lucullo describendum sit. Fama est enim codicem N in locum V successisse et inde recentiorum Luculli silvam aluisse, sed his manuscriptis collatis nimis multae lectiones huic opinioni obstant, quia N multis lacunis denotatur, quae in recentioribus evanuerunt, quamquam horum textus minime F redolet neque hoc tramite contaminatus et expletus est.

Readers and Compilators of Ausiàs March’s Poetry in Barcelona (BNE, MS 2985)

by Albert Lloret

Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures 1.1 (Spring 2012).

This article offers a codicological description of the most complete extant manuscript containing the poetical works... more This article offers a codicological description of the most complete extant manuscript containing the poetical works of Ausiàs March (Valencia, 1400-1459). It lays out the material characteristics of the codex, and sets them in contrast with a matrix of relevant features from other witnesses of March’s poetry. As a result, this study uncovers several stages in the compilatory process of the manuscript, and argues for it having been originally owned by Ferrando de Cardona, Admiral of Naples and Duke of Somma (Naples, 1521- Sant Cugat del Vallès, 1571).

 ‘Diligentibus et Studiosis Lectoribus’ - Perception and Readership of Jacques de Vitry’s Historia Orientalis. A Manuscript Test Case (London Medieval Society Colloquium, 28 April 2012, London).

by Jan Vandeburie

The Illyrica Historia of Faustus Vrančić / Illyrica Historia Fausta Vrančića

by Iva Kurelac

Published in Papers and Proceedings of the Department of Historical Research of the Institute of Historical and Social Research of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, vol. 22, 2005, pp. 173-187.

Besides numerous significant works concerning the fields of both natural and humanistic disciplines written by the... more Besides numerous significant works concerning the fields of both natural and humanistic disciplines written by the famous Renaissance scholar Faustus Vrančić, there is also a less well-known manuscript, Illyrica historia, fragmenta ex variis Historicis, cum Latinis, tum Graecis, hinc inde collecta a Fausto Verancio Siceno, Episcopo Chanadiensi. This article deals with precisely that unfinished compilation of fragments from the works of Greek and Roman authors. A detailed analysis of quotations included in this manuscript shows Vrančić’s good knowledge of the Greek and Roman literary corpus, and places him among the supremely learned persons of his times. The Illyrica historia presents Faustus Vrančić as an versatile Renaissance scholar and thinker. This work of his fully meets the criteria of quality of the contemporary historiography of his age, but today does not have a great scholarly value. However, the sources quoted in this compilation of fragments testify not only to the level of preservation and accessibility of particular works, but also to the interest of Vrančić himself, who by this work represented himself as a versatile Renaissance scholar. Besides the all mention above, this manuscript is valuable also because it contains quotations from some today less well-known and less often used works.
 
Keywords
historiography, Dalmatia, Šibenik, cultural history, humanism

Raritates typographicae quae in Bibliotheca Academiae scientiarum et artium Croaticae asservantur: Catalogus incunabulorum et librorum saeculo XVI typis impressorum / Rijetkosti u Knjižnici Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti: Katalog inkunabula i knjiga 16. stoljeća, sv. 10, ur. Anica Nazor, sastavila i bilješkama popratila Tamara Runjak, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, 2011.

by Iva Kurelac

Book review published in Papers and Proceedings of the Department of Historical Research of the Institute of Historical and Social Research of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, vol. 29, 2011, pp. 406-409.

Four century long search for the truth: Dinko Zavorović a humanist and historan from Šibenik - the first Dalmatian historan / Potraga za istinom duga četiri stoljeća: šibenski humanistički pisac Dinko Zavorović - prvi povjesnik Dalmacije

by Iva Kurelac

A popular science article, published in Hrvatska revija: časopis Matice hrvatske, vol. XI, no. 1, Zagreb, 2011, pp. 100-105.

Henry VIII - the king who made the father of Croatian literature popular in England / Henrik VIII. - kralj zbog kojega su Englezi počeli obožavati oca hrvatske književnosti

by Iva Kurelac

A popular science article, published in Hrvatska revija: časopis Matice hrvatske, vol. XI., no. 2, Zagreb, 2011, pp. 68-75.

“Remember the giver(s): the creation of the Querelle de la Rose and notions of sender and recipient in University of California, Berkeley 109.” Atalaya: Revue d’études médiévales romanes 11 (2009). <http://atalaya.revues.org/index460.html>.

by Heather Bamford

Fondos digitalizados del Archivo Municipal de Oviedo

by David Arbesu

Variation on a Limbourg Theme: Saint Anastasia at the Nativity in a Getty Book of Hours and in French Medieval Literature

by Diane Booton

Fifteenth-Century Studies 29 (2004): 52-79

In an early fifteenth-century French book of hours (Getty MS 57), St Anastasia, born without hands, kneels in... more In an early fifteenth-century French book of hours (Getty MS 57), St Anastasia, born without hands, kneels in worshipful adoration with Mary and Joseph before the newborn Christ Child. According to apocrypha, Anastasia believed in the miraculous divine birth, and when she held the Christ Child in her arms, God rewarded her faith by sending an angel bringing new, beautiful hands. The artist of Getty MS 57, known as the Spitz Master, closely followed a composition from the Très Riches Heures, illuminated by the Limbourg brothers, but inserted the figures of Anastasia and the angel. The Nativity is just one of several compositions in the Getty manuscript modeled after the Très Riches Heures and the Belles Heures. This article examines the iconography of the Getty Nativity and observes that the Anastasia legend parallels the apocryphal narrative of the midwife Salome. This study suggests that religious poems and mystery plays influenced devotional illumination at a time of a resurgence of popular interest in the saint in early fifteenth-century Paris.

‘A Letter from John Partridge to Isaac Manley 24 April 1708: Provenance and Authenticity’ Notes and Queries (published online March 24 2012 doi:10.1093/notesj/gjs045)

by John McTague

‘A fragmentary English-language preface to Keating’s Foras Feasa ar Eirinn, translated by Peter Walsh OFM, c.1680’, Analecta Hibernica, volume 43 (forthcoming).

by Benjamin Hazard

The Three Graces: Appalachian Women on the Covers of Local Color Literature

by Stewart Plein

The Three Graces
Appalachian Women on the Covers of Local Color Literature

Appalachian Studies... more The Three Graces
Appalachian Women on the Covers of Local Color Literature

Appalachian Studies Association Conference 2012


Abstract

Local color literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth century relied heavily on the book’s cover to provide the reader with a glimpse of the story within its pages. Many book covers of this time period were manufactured and stamped with the stereotypical images of the mountain man, whose portraits are often supported with images of guns and stills.  Portraits of Appalachian women on the covers of nineteenth and early twentieth century local color literature cannot be categorized as neatly. 

Appalachian women on the covers of local color literature, although more diverse than those of their male counterparts, largely fall into three recognizable categories:  the lovelorn lass, the mother, and the old crone.  Unlike images of the mountain man or those of Appalachian children, the portraits of Appalachian women on the covers of local color literature capture the full range of a woman’s life, from a starry-eyed teenager desperately in love, to the role of parent, and finally, to the traditional corn cob pipe smoking matriarch of the family. 

Yet this triumvirate of images representing the three stages of a woman’s life often venture beyond these three categories.  While pictorial images of Appalachian women were not subject to the same level of detail as the images of the mountain man, they were instead subject to the traditional modes of objectification and stylization.  This paper explores the various ways Appalachian women were portrayed on the covers of nineteenth and early twentieth century local color literature. 

This paper is part of a larger research project aimed at exploring book cover art and the Appalachian region.  Primary source material for this presentation comes from the author’s extensive investigation of original book bindings found in rare book and other library collections in the Appalachian region.

Forthcoming: ‘The Manuscripts of Jan van Naaldwijk’s Chronicles of Holland, Cotton MSS. Vitellius F. xv and Tiberius C. iv’, Electronic British Library Journal (forthcoming, 2012).

by Sjoerd Levelt

London, British Library, Cotton MSS. Vitellius F. xv and Tiberius C. iv are the autograph manuscripts of two... more London, British Library, Cotton MSS. Vitellius F. xv and Tiberius C. iv are the autograph manuscripts of two chronicles of Holland by Jan van Naaldwijk, the son of a Dutch nobleman, written between 1513 and c. 1520. Renewed investigation of the manuscripts shows they came into the possession of Sir Robert Cotton through the hands of Emanuel van Meteren, and suggests a possible provenance. Additionally, this paper provides a description of a number of irregularities in the current state of MS. Vitellius F. xv, providing a reconstruction of its original shape; it concludes with a brief history of scholarly interest in the two manuscripts.

Erasmo de Rotterdam o las armas de Vulcano en la pelea por la "Spongia" de Torres Rámila

by Julián González-Barrera

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 89:2, 2012, pp. 125-133. ISSN: 1475-3839.

Extra-Illustration as Exemplified in A. H. Reed's Copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson

by Anthony Tedeschi

Published in 'Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand' 36:1 (2012): 42-52.

Les débuts de Dolet comme libraire (Marot, 1538) : histoire d’un fiasco.

by Guillaume Berthon

Étienne Dolet, 1509-2009, Michèle CLÉMENT (éd.), Genève, Droz, 2012, p. 325-343.

L'article examine l'une des toutes premières éditions parues sous le privilège exceptionnel obtenu par Dolet en mars... more L'article examine l'une des toutes premières éditions parues sous le privilège exceptionnel obtenu par Dolet en mars 1538 pour sa véritable entrée en librairie: les Oeuvres de Clément Marot publiées durant l'été 1538, au prix d'une nébuleuse histoire impliquant les imprimeurs François Juste et Sébastien Gryphius, le jeune Dolet et Marot lui-même. Un examen minutieux des différents exemplaires conservés de l'édition, qui révèle de nombreuses corrections sous presse, et la mise en évidence de ce que l'on pourrait appeler la personnalité éditoriale de Marot permettent de mieux éclairer les circonstances mouvementées de la fabrication de cette édition singulière, la dernière autorisée par le poète, et pourtant un demi-échec.

La transmisión de los textos científicos de Alfonso X: el Ms. 1197 de la BNE

by Laura Fernández

La transmisión de los textos científicos de Alfonso X: el Ms. 1197 de la BNE

by Laura Fernández

Philosophy a beautiful art

by Tawadeen Bankole