Bartolomeo Sanvito—An Inventory (Part I)
A GUIDE TO THE MANUSCRIPTS WRITTEN OUT IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY BARTOLOMEO SANVITO
Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life & Work of a Renaissance Scribe by A.C. de la Mare and Laura Nuvoloni; edited by Anthony Hobson and Christopher de Hamel; with contributions by Scott Dickerson, Ellen Cooper Erdreich and Anthony Hobson (Paris: Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, 2009)
This book is a posthumous summation of Albinia de la Mare’s prodigious research into the life and work of the Paduan scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (1433?–1511). [1] In 2011 I reviewed it favorably. Unfortunately, the book has long been out-of-print which has prompted me to prepare this inventory of Sanvito’s manuscripts for those without easy access to a library copy. [2]
For each manuscript I have extracted the basic information from de la Mare’s Sanvito corpus (catalogue number, author, title, date or approximate date, and repository) and added information on the digitization status of the each manuscript. My goal is to enable those interested in the work of Sanvito—Renaissance scholars, art historians, classicists, paleographers, and calligraphers—to see more of it without the immense difficulties involved in visiting 61 libraries in 52 cities to see 123 manuscripts. [3]
N.B. I have also created two related Sanvito inventories derived from de la Mare and Nuvoloni: Bartolomeo Sanvito—An Inventory (Part II): A Guide to the Manuscripts Rubricated or Corrected by Bartolomeo Sanvito and Bartolomeo Sanvito—An Inventory (Part III): A Guide to Manuscripts Misattributed to Bartolomeo Sanvito and to Scribes Associated with Him.
PADUA c.1453–1459
Cat. no. 1 (pp. 104–105; illustration of fol. 48)
Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Pseudo-Ovidius, Heroides XV (Epistola Sapphus)
Padua c.1452–1453
[Oxford: Bodleian Library: D’Orville MS. 166 (S.C. 17044)]
Main text of Tibullus by an unknown Paduan scribe.
fols. 1, 48, and 53 have been digitized.
Cat. no. 2 (pp. 106–107; illustration of fol. 1v)
Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneis
Padua c.1453–1454
[London | British Library: Harley MS. 5268]
fols. 1v and 193 have been digitized
Cat. no. 3 (pp. 108–109; illustration of fol. 12)
Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae
Padua c.1454–1455
[Deventer | Stadsarchief en Athenaeumbibliotheek, MS. 11 D 4 Kl.]
fol. 12 is available as part of “Een kast vol handschriften. Het tweehonderdjarig jubileum van de collectie van de Gelderse Academie in de Athenaeumbibliotheek Deventer” by Suzan Folkerts on Issu.
A PDF brochure for the Athenaeumbibliotheek Deventer includes a low-resolution image of fol. 35.
Cat. no. 4 (pp. 110–111; illustration of fol. 52)
Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera
Padua c.1455–1458
[Milano | Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense: AC.XII 34. (formerly AN.XV 21)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 5 (pp. 112–113; illustration of fol. 3)
Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina
Padua before October 1455, and between c.1456 and 1459
[Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. XII, 153 (=4453)]
The entire manuscript is downloadable.
Cat. no. 6 (pp. 114–115; illustration of fols. 15v–16)
p. 17; illustration of fol. 1
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, De coniuatione Catilinae; and De bello Iugurtino
Padua 22 October 1455
[Rome | Biblioteca Casanatense: MS. 1443 (former B.VI.10)]
Cat. no. 6 written by three scribes; Sanvito is second fols. 16–24; third is the Ptolemy ms. scribe who finished the manuscript 22 October 1455 (p. 18)
not digitized
Cat. no. 7 (pp. 116–117; illustration of fol. 3)
Paulus Diaconus, Epitome of Sextus Pompeius Festus; De significatu verborum
Padua c.1455 to early 1456
[Milano | Biblioteca Ambrosiana: V.5 sup.]
Cat. no. 8 (pp. 118–119 illustration of fols. 25v, 51v, 69, and 100v)
p. 20; illustration of detail fol. 80
Petrus Paulus Vergerius Senior, De ingenuis moribus ac liberalibus studiis, etc.
Padua late 1455 to mid 1456
[London | University of London, Senate House Library: MS. 288]
not digitized
Cat. no. 9 (pp. 120–121; illustration of fol. 4v)
Francesco Buzzacarini, Poem
Padua June 1456
[Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. XII, 16 (=4373)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 10 (pp. 122–123; illustration fol. 1)
Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae
Padua c.1457–1459
[Genoa | Biblioteca Universitaria: MS. FVI15]
not digitized
Cat. no. 11 (pp. 124–125; illustration of fol. 26)
Publius Papinus Statius, Thebaidos and Achilleidos; Pseudo-Ciprianus, De ligno crucis
Padua c.1456
[Evanston, Illinois | Northwestern University, McCormick Library of Special Collections: Western. MS. 12]
not digitized
Cat. no. 12 (pp. 126–127; illustration of fol. 86)
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae
Padua c.1457–1458
[Oxford | Bodleian Library: Auct. F.5.4 (S.C.4139)]
fols. 3, 20v, 50, and spread fols. 52v–53 have been digitized
PADUA 1459/1460–c.1461
Cat. no. 13 (pp. 130–131; illustration of fol. 1 and detail of fol. 6)
Iacopo Ragona, De artificiali memoria
Padua c.1459
[London | Victoria and Albert Museum, National Art Library: MS. L. 1957/1349]
Originally attributed to Tophio (Antonius Dominici de Toffia) by Sydney Cockerell.
not digitized
Cat. no. 14 (pp. 132–133; illustration of fol. 177v)
Titus Livius Andronicus, Historiarum decas prima [in Italian]
Padua c.1459–1460
[Udine | Seminario Arcivescovile, Bibioteca ‘P. Berolla’: Fondo Manoscritti Cernazai 421]
not digitized
Cat. no. 15 (pp. 134–135; illustration of fols. 1v and 2)
Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina
Padua c.1459–1460
[Wolfenbüttel | Herzog August Bibliothek: 332 Gud. Lat. 8°]
not digitized
Cat. no. 16 (pp. 136–137; illustration of fols. 5v–6 and 7v–8)
p. 69; illustration of fols. 27v-28
Jerome, Vitae Malchi et Pauli
Padua c.1460
[Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. II, 39 (=2999)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 17 (pp. 138–139; illustration of fol. 1)
Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina; Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae
Padua 1460
[Vicenza | Biblioteca Comunale Bertoliana: 216]
not digitized
Cat. no. 18 (pp. 140–141; illustration of fol. 1)
Titus Livius Andronicus, Historiarum decas prima
Padua c.1460
[Torino | Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria: J.II.5]
not digitized
Cat. no. 19 (pp. 142–143; illustration of fol. 2)
p. 73; illustration of fol. 1v
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera [glossed]
Padua c.1460–1461
[Austin, Texas | University of Texas, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center: MS.35]
The entire manuscript has been digitized and is downloadable.
Cat. no. 20 (pp. 144–145; illustration of fol. 22v)
Lucian of Samosata, De calumnia; Libanius, Declamationes Neptuni et Martis [both in Latin translation]
Padua late 1461
[Pisa| Biblioteca Universitaria: cod. 531]
not digitized
Cat. no. 21 (pp. 146–147; illustration of fol. 1)
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae Imperatorum
Padua 1461
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Barberiniano Lat. 98]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Cat. Addendum (pp. 376–377; illustration of fols. 8, 97v, 140, and 152)
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi
Padua c.1460*
[Rome | Biblioteca Casanatense: MS. 924 (previously A.III.31)]
*”This is the earliest of Sanvito’s copies of Petrarch… the buyer… allowed Sanvito to make corrections and write marginal variants in the 1460s, to add the headings to the chapters of the Trionfi and more marginalia in the late 1470s and early 1480s, and finally to add a variant and make two more corrections in a very shaky hand in the early 1500s.” p. 376
fol. 164 has been digitized at ManusOnline; and ten images of a facsimile of the manuscript (inclding fols. 1, 75v–76, 98, 100v–101, and 101v–102) are viewable in perspective at facsimilefinder
PADUA c.1463–1464
Cat. no. 22 (pp. 150–151; illustration of fol. 1)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae ad Brutum, Quintum, et Atticum; Pseudo-Cicero, Epistola ad Octavianum
Padua before April 1463
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 5208]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Cat. no. 23 (pp. 152–153; illustration of fol. 40)
Lucius Coelius Lactantius Firmianus, De opificio Deim; Epitome Divinarum institutionum [fragment]; De ira Dei
Padua c.1462–1463
[Palermo | Biblioteca Comunale: 4Qq.A.7]
not digitized
Cat. no. 24 (pp. 154–155; illustration of fols. 3v–4 and 5v–6)
Bernardo Bembo, Oratio Gratulatoria
Padua 1462–1463
[El Escorial | Biblioteca del Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo: F.IV.11]
not digitized
Cat. no. 25 (pp. 156–157; illustration of fol. 45v)
Lionello Chiericati, Dialogus; Isocrates, Ad Nicoclem and Nicocles [in Latin]
Padua c. April 1463
[Reggio Emilia | Biblioteca Panizzi: Turri F.73]
5 images of details have been digitized.
Cat. no. 26 (pp. 158–159; illustration of fols. 6v–7)
Bernardo Bembo, Oratio Gratulatoria
Padua c.1463
[London | British Library: Add. MS. 14787]
A detail of fol. 6v has been digitized by the British Library.
Cat. no. 27 (pp. 160–161; illustration of fol. 5)
p. 23; illustration of fol. 21v
p. 72; illustration of fol. 4v
Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera
Padua c.1463–1464
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 11309]
not digitized
Cat. no. 28 (pp. 162–163; illustration of two surviving partially burnt title pages)
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi
Padua c.1463–1464
[Torino | Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria: N.V.28]
not digitized
Cat. no. 29 (pp. 164–165; illustration of fol. 1)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae ad Brutum, Quintum, et Atticum; etc.
Padua c.1463–1464
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Pal. lat. 1508]
wiglaf.org/vatican/fonds/Pal.lat. displays a client error for Pal. lat. 1508, but the manuscript is fully digitized, unwatermarked, and downloadable at Heidelberg Historic Literature digitized.
Cat. no. 30 (pp. 166–167; illustration of fol. 106)
p. 24; illustration of fol. 10
p. 71; illustration of fol. 149v
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi
Padua c.1463–1464
[London | Victoria and Albert Museum, National art Library: MS. L. 1947–101]
7 images digitized online including fols. 10 and 106.
Cat. no. 31 (pp. 168–169; illustration of fols. 1 and 52)
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis
Padua late 1464–146?
[Milano | Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Sala Prefetto: MS. 13]
not digitized
ROME (and FLORENCE) c.1464–1466
Cat. no. 32 (pp. 172–173)
Caius Julius Caesar, Commentari de bello Gallico et civile
Rome c.1465
[Milano | Biblioteca Ambrosiana: A.243 inf.]
The manuscript has been fully digitized.
Cat. no. 33 (pp. 174–175)
Maestro Martino de’ Rossi, Libro de Arte Coquinaria
Rome c.1465
[Private collection]
De arte coquinaria was written with two other scribes; frontispiece by Sanvito, anonymous scribe pp. 2–37 (line 18), and Tophio finishing from p. 37 (line 19) to the end. (pp. 25–26)
De arte coquinaria was digitized by Octavo in 2005; it is available and downloadable at the Library of Congress website and at Rare Book Room.
Cat. no. 34 (pp. 176–177; illustration of fols. 2 and 5)
Giovanni della Casa, Vita alphonsi Regis
Florence c.1465
[Baltimore | Walters Art Museum: MS. W 405]
fols. 2 and 5 have been digitized and are downloadable.
Cat. no. 35 (pp. 178–179; illustration of fol. 4)
Eusebius of Caesarea / Jerome, Chronici Canones
Rome c.1465–1466
[Parma | Biblioteca Palatina: cod. Palatino 64]
not digitized
Cat. no. 36 (pp. 180–181; illustration of fol. 33v)
p. 27; illustration of detail of fol. 33
Macrobius, Commentarium in somnium Scipionis; Cicero, Somnium Scipionis
Rome c. October 1465–April 1466
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1137]
Sanvito wrote the text (and created the diagram) on fol. 30–30v; the remainder of the manuscript was written out by Tophio (Antonius Dominici de Toffia).
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
ROME (and MANTUA) c.1466–1469
Cat. no. 37 (pp. 184–185; illustration of fol. 2)
p. 29; illustration of fol. 2v
Bartolomeo Cipolla, Libellus de dolore tolerando
Padua c. August 1466–September 1467
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3574]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Cat. no. 38 (pp. 186–187; illustration of fol. 21)
Ars completa geomantiae
Padua or Mantua c.1466–1469
[London | Victoria and Albert Museum, National art Library: MS. L. 1950/2464]
13 images have been digitized (7 pages and 6 details) including fol. 21; some are duplicates.
Cat. no. 39 (pp. 188–189; illustration of fol. 1)
Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti
Padua c.1466/1467
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 7992]
not digitized
Cat. no. 40 (pp. 190–191; illustration of fol. 1)
Publius Ovidius Naso, Tristia and Epistolae ex Ponto; Pseudo-Ovidius, Nux and Consolatio ad Liviam
Padua c.1466–1467
[Oxford | Bodleian Library: MS. Douce 146 (S.C. 21720)]
fols. 1, 26, and 70 and a detail of fol. 138 have been digitized from a slide roll.
Cat. no. 41 (pp. 192–193; illustration of fols. 46v and 60v)
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae
Padua c.1466–1467
[Madrid | Biblioteca Nacional de España: MS. Res. 195]
not digitized
Cat. no. 42 (pp. 194–195; illustration of fol. 1v)
p. 30; illustration of detail of unidentified leaf
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae Imperatorum
Padua c.1467–1468
[Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 184]
not digitized
Cat. no. 43 (pp. 196–197; illustration of fol. 139v)
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi
Padua c.1466–1469
[Madrid | Biblioteca Nacional de España: MS. 611]
not digitized
Cat. no. 44 (pp. 198–199; illustration of fol. 1)
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata
Padua c.1466–1469
[Oxford | Bodleian Library: MS. Auct. F.4.33 (S.C. 2187)]
fols. 1 and 19 have been digitized.
Cat. no. 45 (pp. 200–201; illustration of fol. 72)
Publius Ovidius Naso, Tristia and Epistolae ex Ponto; Pseudo-Ovidius, Nux and Consolatio ad Liviam
Padua c.1467–1468
[Dresden | Sächsische Landesbibliothek: Dc 147]
not digitized
Cat. no. 46 (pp. 202–203; illustration of 30v)
Publius Ovidius Naso, Heroides, amores, Ibis, Sappho Phaoni, Ars amatoria, Remedia amoris
Padua c.1467–1468
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 7997]
not digitized
ROME c.1469–1476/1477
Cat. no. 47 (pp. 206–207; illustration of fol. 1)
p. 82; illustration of fol. i verso
Caius Julius Caesar, Commentari de bello Gallico et civile, Alexandrino, Africano et Hispaniense
Rome c.1469
[Rome | Biblioteca Casanatense: MS. 453]
17 images (including fols. 11, 30, 52, and 199; and details of fols. 15v, 23, 38v, 62v, 84, 84v, 96v, 117, 128v, 157, and 176) are available digitally from the Biblioteca Casanatense; fol. 199 is at Web Gallery of Art.
Cat. no. 48 (pp. 208–209; illustration of fol. 2)
Bartolomeo Platina, De principe
Padua, Mantua or Rome 1471
[Mantua | Biblioteca Comunale: MS. 13 (A.I..13)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 49 (pp. 210–211; illustration of fols. 2v, 15, 29, and 140)
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis
Rome c.1469
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 9490]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
A facsimile of the manuscript has been made by Zeiris Facsimiles.
Cat. no. 50 (pp. 212–213; illustration of fol. 118v)
Eusebius of Caesarea / Jerome, Chronici Canones
Rome before 1471
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 241]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Cat. no. 51 (pp. 214–215; illustration of fols. 17, 117, 128v, and 164v)
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge, etc.
Rome and Padua 1470–1507
[Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Ashb. 905 (formerly 836)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 52 (pp. 216–217; illustration of fol. 1)
Bartolomeo Platina, De falso et vero bono
Rome 1471–1472
[Edinburgh | National Library of Scotland: MS. Adv. 18.7.16]
not digitized
Cat. no. 53 (pp. 218–219; illustration of fols. 1 and 50)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Rome 1471?
[Naples | Biblioteca Nazionale: IV G 65]
not digitized
Cat. no. 54 (pp. 220–221; illustration of fol. 41)
Plutarch, Vitae camilli, Fabii maximi & Marcelli [in Latin translations]
Rome 1471?
[Carpentras | Bibliothèque Inguimbertine: MS 618]
4 folios and 4 details are available digitally at Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux.
Cat. no. 55 (pp. 222–223; illustration of fol. 1)
Bartolomeo Platina, De vera nobilitate and Vita Nicolai III
Rome c.1473
[Toledo | Archivo y Biblioteca Capitulares: MS. 103–10]
not digitized
Cat. no. 56 (pp. 224–225; illustration of fol. 4)
Bartolomeo Platina, De optimo cive
Rome 1474
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: nouv. acq. lat. 584]
not digitized
Cat. no. 57 (pp. 226–227; illustration of fol. 1)
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae Imperatorum
Rome c.1474
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 5814]
Gallica BnF has digitized the entire manuscript and made it downloadable; a poor image of fol. 1 is also available at Wikimedia.
Cat. no. 58 (pp. 228–229; illustration of fol. 5)
Domizio Calderini, Commentarii in satyras Iuvenalis
Rome 1474 after 1 September
[Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Plut. 53.2]
The entire manuscript is available digitally.
Cat. no. 59 (pp. 230–231; illustration of fol. 1)
Bartolomeo Platina, Liber de vita Christi
Rome 1474–1475
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 2044]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Cat. no. 60 (pp. 232–233; illustration of fols. 1, 3v, 68, and 96v)
Bartolomeo Platina, De principe
Rome c.1475
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3814]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Cat. no. 61 (pp. 234–235; illustration of fol. 3)
p. 83; illustration of two details of fol. 82
Dictys Cretensis, Ephemeris belli Troiani
Rome c.1475–1477
[Dublin | Chester Beatty Library: MS. W.122]
not digitized
Cat. no. 62 (pp. 236–237; illustration of fol. 2)
Dictys Cretensis, Ephemeris belli Troiani; Francisco Filelfo, De sacerdotio Christi
Rome c.1476–1477
[Cambridge, Massachusetts | Harvard University, Houghton Library: MS. Lat. 375 (formerly *94M62)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 63 (pp. 238–239; illustration of fol. 1)
Dictys Cretensis, Ephemeris belli Troiani
Rome before 19 January 1478
[Toledo | Archivo y Biblioteca Capitulares: MS. 49–17]
not digitized
Cat. no. 64 (pp. 240–241; illustration of fols. 1, 64, 76v, and 88)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
Rome before 27 July 1477
[Cambridge | University Library: Dd.15.13]
not digitized
ROME c.1477–1483
Cat. no. 65 (pp. 244–245; illustration of fol. 167)
Caius Julius Caesar, Commentaria de bello Gallico et civili, etc.
Rome c.1477
[Madrid | Biblioteca Nacional de España: MS. 12867]
not digitized
Cat. no. 66 (pp. 246–247; illustration of fol. 2)
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata
Rome c.1477
[Genoa | Biblioteca Durazzo: MS. A III 13]
not digitized
Cat. no. 67 (pp. 248–249; illustration of fols. 11, 110v, 192v, and 201)
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata [France, 12th century]
Rome c.1477–1492
[London | British Library: Harley MS. 2700]
4 images are available digitally: fols. 1v–2, 11, 192v, and 201; but only fols. 11 and 201 are by Sanvito.
Cat. no. 68 (pp. 250–251; illustration of fol. 27)
Plutarch, De ira [translated by Bartolomeo Platina]; L. Annaeus Seneca, De ira
Rome c.1477 before 9 January 1478
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 1888]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Cat. no. 69 (pp. 252–253; illustration of fol. 139)
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae Imperatorum
Rome c.1478
[Göttingen | Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek: 2° Cod. Ms. Philol. 161 Cim.]
not digitized
Cat. no. 70 (pp. 254–255; illustration of fol. 109v)
p. 79; illustration of detail of fol. 138v
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae Imperatorum
Rome not before 19 January 1478
[Private collection (formerly Stratfield Saye, Wellington collection]
not digitized
Cat. no. 71 (pp. 256–257; illustration of fol. 4v)
Ahmed ben Syrin, Liber somniorum [in the Latin translation of Leo Tuscus]
Rome c.1480
[Stockholm | Kungliga Biblioteket: Huseby 17]
not digitized
Cat. no. 72 (pp. 258–261; illustration of fols. 1v and 30)
p. 81; illustration of fol. 52
Homer, Iliad [in Greek and Latin]
Rome between June 1477 and October 1483
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. gr. 1626]
Scribe of the Greek volume was Joannes Rhosos; Latin volume has underdrawings of unfinished initials by Sanvito (p. 260).
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
ROME c.1483–1485 (or earlier)
Cat. no. 73 (pp. 264–265; illustration of fol. 122)
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, ad usum Romanum
Padua late 1470s to early 1480s
[Padua | Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile: MS. 203]
not digitized
Cat. no. 74 (pp. 266–267; illustration of fol. 59)
p. 61; illustration of detail of fol. 17
Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera
Rome c.1483–1485
[London | British Library: King’s MS. 24]
The entire manuscript is digitally available.
Cat. no. 75 (pp. 268–269; illustration of fols. 13v–14, 39v, and 48)
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, ad usum Romanum
Padua c.1478–1483
[Seckau | Benediktinerabtei: MS. 555]
not digitized
Cat. no. 76 (pp. 270–271; illustration of fols. 36, 53, 69v, and 105)
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, ad usum Romanum
Padua c.1478–1483
[Benediktbeuern | Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule-Bibliothek: MS. 2]
not digitized
Cat. no. 77 (pp. 272–273; illustration of fol. 16)
Eusebius of Caesarea / Jerome, Chronici Canones
Rome c.1483–1485
[Valladolid | Universidad de Valladolid, Biblioteca de Santa Cruz: MS. 333]
not digitized
Cat. no. 78 (pp. 274–275; illustration of fol. 118v)
Eusebius of Caesarea / Jerome, Chronici Canones
Rome c.1483–1485
[Madrid | Biblioteca Nacional de España: MS. 10014]
not digitized
Cat. no. 79 (pp. 276–277 illustration of leaves c [Boston] and h [San Francisco])
Septem Psalmi poenitentiales and Officium mortuorum
Rome early 1480s
[former Otto F. Ege single leaves]
Bloomington, Indiana | Lilly Library, Manuscript Collection Adomeit Collection, Leaf 48 (one leaf)
Boulder, Colorado | University of Colorado, University Libraries, James Hayes Collection, MS. 1 (two leaves)
Boston | Boston University, School of Theology Library, STh. MS. (leaves 72–80)
Sweet Briar, Virginia | Sweet Briar College, Anne Gary Pannell Gallery, MS. 1995.016 (one leaf)
London | Christopher de Hamel collection (one leaf)
Tokyo | Takamiya Collection (one leaf)
Los Angeles | private collection (two leaves)
San Francisco | private collection (one leaf)
Oberlin, Ohio | Oberlin College (one leaf)
Cat. no. 80 (pp. 278–279; illustration of fol. 150)
p. 85; illustration of detail of fol. 107v
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi
Rome c.1483–1485 [with decoration added in the 1490s]
[San Daniele del Friuli | Biblioteca Guarneriana: MS. 139]
The entire manuscript has been digitized (with sound effects).
Cat. no. 81 (pp. 280–281; illustration of fol. 1)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
Rome early to mid 1480s
[Budapest | OrszágoSzéchényi Könyvtár: Clmae 419]
not digitized
Cat. no. 82 (pp. 282–283; illustration of fols. 1, 87v, 91v, and 122)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
Rome mid-1480s
[Cambridge | King’s College: MS. 34]
not digitized
ROME c.1486–1489
Cat. no. 83 (pp. 286–287; illustration of fol. 99v)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Rome 1486–1491
[Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Acquisti e Doni MS. 819]
not digitized
Cat. no. 84 (pp. 288–289; illustration of fol. 1)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
Rome late 1480s or early 1490s
[New York | New York Public Library, Spencer Collection: MS. 48]
not digitized
Cat. no. 85 (pp. 290–291; illustration of Chantilly fols. 356, 357, and 357v; and Harvard fol. 143)
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, ad usum Romanum
Rome late 1480s to early 1490s
[Cambridge, Massachusetts | Harvard University, Houghton Library: MS. Type. 213; and Chantilly | Musée Condé: Divers ms. VI, leaves 356 and 357]
not digitized
Cat. no. 86 (pp. 292–293; illustration of fol. 1; illustration of fol. 1)
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Opera
Rome c.1487–1488
[Cambridge, Massachusetts | Harvard University, Houghton Library: MS. Richardson 17]
David Rundle’s blog bonæ litteræ has images of fols. 1 and 138v
Cat. no. 87 (pp. 294–295; illustration of fol. 2)
p. 38; illustration of detail of fol. 119v
Eusebius of Caesarea / Jerome, Chronici Canones
Rome probably 1488
[London | British Library: Royal MS. 14.C.III]
The entire manuscript has been digitized.
Cat. no. 88 (pp. 296–297; illustration of fol. 1v)
Francesco Petrarca, Trionfi
Rome late 1480s
[Baltimore | Walters Art Museum: MS. W 755]
12 leaves have been digitized and are downloadable
Cat. no. 89 (pp. 298–299; illustration of fols. 13 and 121 in black-and-white)
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, ad usum Romanum
Padua c.1488/89
[formerly Florence | Ashburner collection]
The Sforza-Aragon Hours manuscript from the Maurice Burras collection (formerly the Walter Ashburner collection and not seen since 1938) was sold 17 October 2017 by Alde.fr; 8 spreads and 1 detail in low resolution are viewable online.
Cat. no. 90 (pp. 300–301; illustration of fol. 45)
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Opera
Rome c.1487–1494
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 1835]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Cat. no. 91 (pp. 302–303; illustration of fol. 3)
Alessandro Cortesi, De mathiae Corvini laudibus carmen
Rome c.1488–1489
[Wölfenbuttel | Herzog August Bibliothek: MS. 85.1.1 Aug 2°]
fols. 20–24v were written by Jacopo Aurelio Questenberg (Cat. no. 91 footnote 128, p. 390)
Images of the entire manuscript can be downloadable individually.
Cat. no. 92 (pp. 304–305; illustration of fols. 5v, 19, 35, and 104v)
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge
Rome c.1488–1489
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 10228 (formerly 10482)]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
ROME (and PADUA) c.1489–1493
Cat. no. 93 (pp. 308–309; illustration of fols. 12dv–13 and 74v–75)
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, ad usum Romanum
Rome late 1480s–early 1490s
[Ravenna | Biblioteca Classense: Cod. 4]
not digitized
Cat. no. 94 (pp. 310–311; illustration of fols. 28v–29 and 65v–66)
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, ad usum Romanum
Rome late 1480s–early 1490s
[Stuttgart | Württembergische Landesbibliothek: Cod. brev. 29]
not digitized
Cat. no. 95 (pp. 312–313; illustration of fol. 157v)
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi
Rome late 1480s or early 1490s
[Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Plut. 90 inf. 6]
The entire manuscript is available digitally.
Cat. no. 96 (pp. 314–315; illustration of fols. ix, 44, 101, and 108)
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge [First Recension]
Rome or Padua c.1488–1491, and 1492
[Verona | Biblioteca Capitolare: MS. CCLXX (241)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 97 (pp. 316–317; illustration of fols. 14v–15 and 58v–59)
Bindo Bonichi da Siena, Dante Alighieri and Sennuccio del Bene, Canzoni
Rome or Padua early 1490s
[Milano | Biblioteca Trivulziana: Cod. 1053 (Collocazione M33)]
not digitized
ROME c.1493–1501
Cat. no. 98 (pp. 320–321; illustration of fols. 31v–32 and 84v–85)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Rome 5 December 149[4]
[London | British Library: Add. MS. 6051]
not digitized
Cat. no. 99 (pp. 322–323; illustration of fol. 1 and detail of fol. 121)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Rome 2 November 1495
[London | Victoria and Albert Museum, National Art Library: MS. L. 1954/1609]
not digitized
Cat. no. 100 (pp. 322–323; illustration of fol. 1)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia; Pro M. Marcello; De amicitia; De senectute
Rome c.1494–1495
[New York | Pierpont Morgan Library: M 882]
fols. 1, 29, 42, and 80v (with details) have been digitized at a low resolution.
Cat. no. 101 (pp. 326–327; illustration of fols. 142v–143)
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi
Rome c.1495–1497
[Private collection (former J.R. Abbey MS. J.A.7368)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 102 (pp. 328–329; illustration of fol. 1 and detail of fol. 126)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Rome 14 February 1497
[Windsor | Eton College: MS. 149]
not digitized
Cat. no. 103 (pp. 330–331; illustration of fols. 65v, 97, 104v, and 155v)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis
Rome 23 October 1498
[London | British Library: Harley MS. 2692]
fols. 1, 40, 65v, and 155v have been digitized
Cat. no. 104 (pp. 332–333; illustration of fol. xxi)
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge; Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis
Rome October 1497–November 1499
[Florence | Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale: Magliabechi XXVIII, 5]
not digitized
Cat. no. 105 (pp. 334–335; illustration of fol. 1)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore
Rome 20 December 1499
[Ownership unknown]
not digitized
Cat. no. 106 (pp. 336–337; illustration of fol. 145v)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae disputations
Rome 10 February 1500
[Perugia | Biblioteca Comunale Augusta: N 56 (1104)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 107 (pp. 338–339; illustration of fol. 1)
Francesco Prendilacqua, Vita Victorini Feltrensis Dialogus
Rome 12 February 1501
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Patetta 380]
The manuscript has been digitized from microfilm and is watermarked.
Cat. no. 108 (pp. 340–341; illustration of fol. 89)
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae
Rome c.1496–1497
[Moscow | Russian State Library: f.256 N°. 747]
not digitized
PADUA c.1501–1511
Cat. no. 109 (pp. 344–345; illustration of fol. 1v)
Epistolarium et Evangeliarium
Padua after 1502
[New York | New York Public Library, Spencer Collection: MS. 7]
New York Public Library Digital Collection includes 14 leaves from the two volumes.
Cat. no. 110 (pp. 346–347; illustration of fol. 2)
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge; Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis; Fabius Victor, De XIV urbis regionibus
Padua not before 1502
[Madrid | Biblioteca Nacional de España: MS. 10096]
not digitized
Cat. no. 111 (pp. 348–349; illustration of fol. 92)
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge; Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis; Fabius Victor, De XIV urbis regionibus
Padua? after 1502
[London | British Library: Stowe MS. 1016]
One spread (fols. 223v–224), 3 leaves (fols. 92, 116v, and 237v), and 5 details are available digitally.
Cat. no. 112 (pp. 350–351; illustration of fol. 26)
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge
Padua? after 1502
[Derbyshire | Chatsworth House]
not digitized
Cat. no. 113 (pp. 352–353; illustration of fol. 1)
Marcus Valerius Probus, De notis antiquis; Fabius Victor, De XIV urbis regionibus et vetustatibus opusculum
Padua? after 1502
[London | British Library: Harley MS. 2528]
Only fol. 1 has been digitized.
Cat. no. 114 (pp. 354–355; illustration of fols. 1v and 58)
Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera
Padua after 1502
[Princeton, New Jersey | Princeton University, Firestone Library: MS. 41]
not digitized
Cat. no. 115 (pp. 356–357; illustration of fol. x verso)
p. 77; illustration of fol. 107v
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi
Padua not before 1501
[Geneva-Cologny | Fondazione Martin Bodmer: cod. Bodmer 130]
The entire manuscript is available digitally.
Cat. no. 116 (pp. 358–359; illustration of fols. iv verso–1)
Martino Mastellari, Panegyricus in Georgium Cornelium
Padua c.1504
[Padua | Biblioteca Civica: B.P. 1417/3]
not digitized
Cat. no. 117 (pp. 360–361; illustration of fol. 1)
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae
Padua before October 1508?
[Leeds | University of Leeds, Brotherton Library: MS. 4]
not digitized
Cat. no. 118 (pp. 362–363; illustration of fols. 1v, 2, and 6)
Giovanbattista Graziani Garzadori, Verses
Padua c.1505–1508
[Milano | Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Sala Prefetto: MS. 44]
not digitized
Cat. no. 119 (pp. 364–365; illustration of fol. 41v)
Manual of Padua Cathedral
Padua 1506–1508
[Padua | Biblioteca Capitolare: E 3 (F2)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 120 (pp. 366–367; illustration of fols. 13v–14 and 91v–92)
The Stuart de Rothesay Hours
Padua? c.1508?
[London | British Library: Add. MS. 20927]
The entire manuscript is digitized.
Cat. no. 121 (pp. 368–371; illustration of Epistolarium fol. 3 and Evangelarium fol. 10 )
p. 64; illustration of fol. 8v
Epistolarium et Evangeliarium
Padua 1509
[Padua | Biblioteca Capitolare: E 26–27]
Two volumes: E 26 Epistolary and E 27 Evangelary
not digitized
Cat. no. 122 (pp. 372–373; illustration of fols. 5v-6)
Martino Mastellari, In Mariam Virginem Panaegyrici
Padua c.1509
[Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. III, 42 (=2928)]
not digitized
Cat. no. 123 (pp. 374–375; illustration of fols. i and 4v)
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge
Padua c.1509
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 5326]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Notes
1. For the life of Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001) see the tribute by The British Academy.
2. The idea for the inventory was sparked by the Zoom talk I gave on Sanvito’s work to the Blackletter Brunch on 16 October 2022.
3. This summary of the geographical dispersal of Sanvito’s corpus leaves out one manuscript that exists only in scattered leaves and five in private collections. It also vastly understates the amount of work that de la Mare did over the course of four decades in tracking down and identifying manuscripts by Sanvito. Her research included identifying manuscripts with rubrications or corrections by him, as well as distinguishing his work from a number of imitators. There are 295 manuscripts listed in the back of Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life & Work of a Renaissance Scribe (see pp. 455–458).
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