Bartolomeo Sanvito—An Inventory (Part II)
A GUIDE TO THE MANUSCRIPTS RUBRICATED OR CORRECTED 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)
Albinia de la Mare’s posthumous corpus on the work of the Paduan scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (1433?–1511) (see above) focuses on manuscripts that he entirely or partially wrote out. It does not include manuscripts to which he contributed rubrications or corrections. [1] Information about them is scattered throughout the book in de la Mare’s Introduction, her introductory summaries for each section of the catalogue, some of her individual manuscript entries, Appendix IV “Rejected Attributions,” Scott Dickerson’s Chronology, Ellen Cooper Erdreich’s essay “Bartolomeo Sanvito as Illuminator,” and in the footnotes to all of those texts. I have tried to ferret out these references to build this preliminary inventory of manuscripts rubricated by Sanvito. [2]
Some of the references are not entirely clear, a few seem to be in conflict with others, and for two I am skeptical of her attribution. I have used Rubr. (rubrication) as a prefix designation for each manuscript except those for which Sanvito contributed only corrections. I have included the identity of the principal scribe (or scribes) wherever possible as well as a few comments based on my own Sanvito researches and on my examination of those manuscripts that have been digitized.
N.B. This inventory is related to two other Sanvito inventories derived from de la Mare and Nuvoloni: Bartolomeo Sanvito—An Inventory (Part I): A Guide to the Manuscripts Written Out in Whole or in Part by Bartolomeo Sanvito and Bartolomeo Sanvito—An Inventory (Part III): A Guide to Manuscripts Misattributed to Bartolomeo Sanvito and to Scribes Associated with Him.
Index of Scribes
scribe of Apuleius (Apuleius, Herbarium [London | British Library: Add. MS. 21115])—Rubr. 51 and 62
scribe of Ferrara Ovid (Ovid, Fasti [Ferrara | Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea: MS. II.141])—Rubr. 58
scribe of Vitt. Em. 1004—Rubr. 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, and 50
Josephus Flavius scribe (Josephus Flavius, De bello Judaico [Valencia | Biblioteca Universitaria: MS. 836 (formerly 819)]—Rubr. 17
King’s MS. 29 scribe (Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae [London | British Library: King’s MS. 29])—Rubr. 8 and 10
Paris Ptolemy scribe (Ptolemy, Cosmographia [Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 17542]—Rubr. 1 and 5
Julianus Antonii de Prato—Rubr. 15 and 41
Giovan Pietro Arrivabene—Rubr. 13
Bernardo Bembo scribe—Rubr. 2
Emilio Boccabella (alias Lelius Antonius Augustus)—Rubr. 34 and 35
Guido Bonatti da Mantua—Rubr. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23
Andrea Brenta—Rubr. 44 and 52
Francesco Buzzacarini—Rubr. 16
Franciscus de Camuciis—Rubr. 7 and 9
Giuliano Cenci—Rubr. 60, 62, 63, 72, and 74
Matteo Contugi da Volterra—Rubr. 24
Johannes Nardi Fusci de Itro (Giovanni da Idria)—Rubr. 14 and 75
Pomponio Leto—Rubr. 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32
Niccolò Mangona—Rubr. 66
Giovanni Rinaldo Mennio—Rubr. 59, 65, and 67
Pietro da Montagna scribe
Partenio Minuzio Pallini—Rubr. 33
Cassius Parmensis (Giovanni di Antonio di Sasso)—Rubr. 27, 54, and 55
Girolamo Pereti da Bassano—Rubr. 3 and 4
Bartolomeo da Piazzola—Rubr. 3 and 4
scribe working for Vespasiano da Bisticci (probably Gabriel de Pistorio)—Rubr. 39
Jacopo Aurelio Questenberg—Rubr. 68 and 69
Nicolaus Riccius—Rubr. 38
Antonio da Salla—Rubr. 8, 10, and 71
Antonio Sinibaldi—Rubr. 57 and 64
Piero Strozzi—Rubr. 40
Franciscus Tianus (Francesco de Tianis)—Rubr. 12 and 26
Tophio (Antonius Dominici de Toffia)—Rubr. 37
PADUA c.1453–1459
Rubr. 1 (pp. 103 and 385)
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae
Paris Ptolemy scribe
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3162]
digitized manuscript is watermarked
Rubr. 2 (p. 103)
Basil, Xenophon and Jerome, Oracula
anonymous scribe who worked for Bernardo Bembo
[Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Ashb. 133]
not digitized
Rubr. 3 (Dickerson p. 42 and footnote 24, p. 392)
Terence
anonymous Paduan scribe (possibly Bartolomeo da Piazzola or Girolamo Pereti da Bassano); headings by Sanvito
[London | British Library: Add. MS. 11908]
not digitized
Rubr. 4 (Dickerson p. 42 and footnote 24, p. 392)
Virgil, Aeneid
anonymous Paduan scribe (possibly Bartolomeo da Piazzola or Girolamo Pereti da Bassano); first three headings by Sanvito and remainder left blank; but see Rub. 9
[London | British Library: MS. Harley 2726]
3 leaves have been digitized: fols. 2, 158v, and 194v.
Rubr. 5 (p. 18)
Ptolemy, Cosmographia
Paris Ptolemy scribe; epigraphic capitals on fol. 1 by Sanvito
1457
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: MS. lat. 17542]
not digitized
PADUA 1459/1460–c.1461
Rubr. 6 (p. 129)
Lauro Palazzolo, Oratio ad Iacobum Zeno
dated 1 May 1460
[Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Plut. 53.11]
not digitized
Rubr. 7 (p. 129)
Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae
scribe: possibly Franciscus de Camuciis (p. 129)
[Berne | Burgerbibliothek: 517]
Perhaps a copy of Cat. no. 17 (p. 21).
not digitized
PADUA c.1463–1464
Rubr. 8 (p. 149)
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae
headings by Sanvito and Antonio da Salla
[London | British Library: King’s MS. 29]
fols. 1 and 70v (with details) have been digitized; fol. 70v includes the underdrawing for a faceted initial
Rubr. 9 (pp. 149 and 385)
Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid
scribe: Franciscus de Camuciis, but signed for him by Sanvito (fol. 194v)
dated 8 August 1463
[London | British Library: MS. Harley 2726]
3 leaves have been digitized: fols. 2, 158v, and 194v.
Rubr. 10 (pp. 22 and 149)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae
anonymous scribe; possibly Antonio da Salla or same scribe as scribe for King’s MS. 29 (Dickerson footnote 51, p. 393)
[Glasgow | University Library: Hunter MS. 18 (S.2.8)]
not digitized
Rubr. 11 (p. 149)
Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere
anonymous scribe; rubrication and 15 lines on fol. 61 by Sanvito (p. 149; and Dickerson footnote no. 27, p. 392)
[Trieste | Biblioteca Civica Attilio Hortis: Ms. I.17]
not digitized
ROME (and FLORENCE) c.1464–1466
Rubr. 12 (p. 171)
Oration by Jacopo Zeno on the election of Paul II 16 September 1464
scribe: possibly Franciscus Tianus (Francesco de Tianis)
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3704]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 13 (pp. 27, 183 and 272)
Eusebius of Caesarea / Jerome, Chronici Canones
scribe: Giovan Pietro Arrivabene; title by Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 743]
not digitized
Rubr. 14 (p. 171)
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, De coniuratione
scribe: Johannes de Itro
[London | British Library: Add. MS. 11950]
not digitized
Rubr. 15 (p. 171)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione
scribe: Julianus Antonii de Prato (pp. 171 and 205)
[Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Plut. 50.16]
bound with Rub. 41.
I am skeptical that any of the colored epigraphic initials are by Sanvito.
Cat. no. 36 (p. 180)
Macrobius, Commentarium in somnium Scipionis; Cicero, Somnium Scipionis
scribe: Tophio (Antonius Dominici de Toffia); Sanvito wrote out fol. 30–30v.
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1137]
This manuscript, part two of two manuscripts by Macrobius (the other being Macrobius, Convivia Saturnalia [Cambridge | University Library: Add. MS. 4095]), is a crucial one for distinguishing the hands of Sanvito and Tophio. (See pp. 26, 180, and 216.)
not digitized
PADUA (and MANTUA) c.1466–1469
Rubr. 16 (p. 29)
C. Julius Hyginus, De sideribus tractatus
scribe: Francesco Buzzacarini (p. 29); underdrawing for faceted initial by Sanvito
[New York | New York Public Library, Spencer Collection: MS. 28]
Rubr. 17 (p. 183)
Quintus Curtius Rufus, De rebus gestis Alexandri magni and Pseudo-Pliny, De viris illustribus
Josephus Flavius scribe
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1741]
not digitized
Rubr. 18 (p. 183)
Scriptores historiae Augustae
scribe: Guido Bonatti
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1304]
not digitized
Rubr. 19 (p. 183)
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
scribe: Guido Bonatti
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1422]
Cat. no. 67 footnote 7, p. 421 describes the scribe as anonymous and attributes the heading to Spectacula to Sanvito.
not digitized
Rubr. 20 (p. 183)
Publius Ovidius Naso, Opera
scribe: Guido Bonatti; incipits by Sanvito up to fol. 94v (p. 190)—the incipits are on fols. 1, 15, 30v, 46v, 54, 68v, 78, and 94v. Explicit on fol. 111v and incipits on fols. 112, 124v, and 128 presumably by Bonatti.
signed 1467
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Chigi H.V.169]
The manuscript is digitized at a low quality from microfilm and is watermarked.
Rubr. 21 (p. 183)
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae Caesarum
scribe: Guido Bonatti
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 5811]
not digitized
Rubr. 22 (p. 183)
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata
scribe: Guido Bonatti; heading on fol. 1 by Sanvito (p. 198)
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 11487]
not digitized
Rubr. 23 (p. 183)
Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina; Publius Ovidius Naso et al
scribe: Guido Bonatti; c. 1467; rubrication by Sanvito on fols. 1, 44v, and 88v; and possibly elsewhere. (Black-and-white images at low quality make it impossible to tell with certainty which lines of small capitals within the text are by Sanvito which are by Bonatti.) Bonatti did the rubrication on fols. 64, 72v, and 78.
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat Chig. H.V.121]
The manuscript is digitized at a low quality from microfilm and is watermarked.
Rubr. 24 (pp. 183 and 205)
Francesca Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi
scribe: Matteo Contugi da Volterra (1465/1466); with one heading by Sanvito and index to poems (Spring 1466) and interlinear glosses added later (pp. 28 and 183)
[London | British Library: Harley MS. 3567]
9 leaves (3 duplicated) and 3 details available digitally including fol. 5 (index to poems) and fol. 9 with two lines rubricated by Sanvito (one of which has been heavily overwritten)
Rubr. 25 (p. 202)
Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti and Amores; Pseudo-Ovidius, Nux etc.
scribe: anonymous or Pomponio Leto?; with one line inserted by Sanvito
[Ferrara | Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea: MS. II.141]
De la Mare (p. 243) says this manuscript was written by the same scribe as the Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni in Torino. Francesco Lo Monaco “Dal commento medievale al commento umanistico: il caso dei ‘Fasti’ di Ovidio” in Studi italiani di filologia classica 85 = 3a ser., 10 [1992], pp. 848–860 attributes it to Pomponio Leto.
not digitized
ROME c.1469–1476/1477
Rubr. 26 (p. 204)
Jerome, Epistolae, vol. 2
scribe: Franciscus de Tianis; signed 18 May 1469
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 8911]
not digitized
Rubr. 27 (p. 204)
Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica
scribe: Cassius Parmensis (Giovanni di Antonio di Sasso); signed 3 July 1470
[Torino | Biblioteca Universitaria Nazionale: E.II.22]
not digitized
Rubr. 28 (p. 204)
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata
scribe: Pomponio Leto
[London | British Library: King’s MS. 32]
2 leaves (and 4 details) are available digitally: fol. 2 is rubricated by Sanvito
Rubr. 29 (p. 204)
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebaides
scribe: Pomponio Leto; rubrication by Sanvito on fols. 1 and 2
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3279]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 30 (p. 204)
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Bellum civile
scribe: Pomponio Leto; rubrication by Sanvito on fols. 1
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3285]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 31 (p. 204)
Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, Punica
scribe: Pomponio Leto; rubrication of fol. 1 and drawings attributed to Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3302]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 32 (p. 204)
Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina; Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae
scribe: Pomponio Leto; heading for Propertius by Sanvito
[Rome | Biblioteca Casanatense: MS. 15]
The Casanatense website labels MS. 15 as Rime by Pomponio Leto and shows fol. 25. But de la Mare’s information is supported by the Repertorium Pomponianum.
Rubr. 33 (p. 204)
Publius Papinius Statius, Sylvae and Pseudo-Ovidius, Epistola Sapphus
scribe: Partenio Minuzio Pallini (pupil of Pomponio Leto); rubrications of fols. 4, 6v, 13, 16v, 21, 25v, 27, 27v, 28, 32v, 33, 36, 38v, 42, 44, 46, 47v, 49, 51v, 53v, 54v, 56v, 57v, 58v, 59v, 60, 64, 67, 72, 72v, 74, and 76 by Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3595]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 34 (p. 204)
Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgica and Appendix Virgiliana
scribe: Emilio Boccabella (alias Lelius Antonius Augustus) (pupil of Pomponio Leto) (p. 212); rubrication of fols. 1, 12, 23v, 35v, 47v, 56, 81, and 94v by Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3255]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 35 (p. 204)
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica
scribe: Emilio Boccabella (alias Lelius Antonius Augustus) (pupil of Pomponio Leto) (p. 212)
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 2014]
not digitized
Rubr. 36 (p. 204)
Cardinal Basilius Bessarion, Works
anonymous scribe
[Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. Z.135 (=1694)]
not digitized
Rubr. 37 (p. 204)
Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae
three scribes, one possibly Tophio (Antonius Dominici de Toffia)
[Groningen | Universiteit Bibliotheek: MS. 159]
not digitized
Rubr. 38 (p. 205)
Poggio Bracciolini, Opera
scribe: Nicolaus Riccius; rubrication on fols. 3, 15, 29v, 42v, 54, 54v, 74v, 75, 88, 89, 108v, 115, 130, 131, 147v, 161v, 162, 184v, 190v, 191, 208, 208v, 209v, 228, 235, 241, 246v, 253, 259v, and 266 by Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 224]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 39 (p. 205)
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera
scribe working for Vespasiano da Bisticci (probably Gabriel de Pistorio) (Cat. no. 64, footnote 13, p. 420); Sanvito added list of contents and headings for individual satires
[London | British Library: Harley MS. 3510]
image for fol. 2 (with no contributions from Sanvito) is digitally available
Rubr. 40 (p. 205)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae
scribe: Piero Strozzi
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Pal. lat. 1488]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked; an unwatermarked copy is available at Heidelberg historic literature digitized
I see no evidence of Sanvito in this manuscript.
Rubr. 41 (p. 205)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
scribe: Julianus Antonii de Prato; some epigraphic initials by Sanvito
[Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Plut. 50.16]
bound with Rub. 15
I am skeptical that any of the colored epigraphic initials are by Sanvito.
Rubr. 42 (Cat. no. 65 footnote 8, p. 421)
Miscellany of excerpts from Livy and Cicero
Vitt. Em. 1004 scribe; rubrication possibly by Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1505]
not digitized
Rubr. 43 (p. 205)
Albius Tibullus, Elegiae and Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina
Vitt. Em. 1004 scribe (Cat. no. 65 footnote 8, p. 421)
[Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. XII 81 (=4649)]
not digitized
Rubr. 44 (p. 205)
Andrea Brenta, Oratio funebris Lysiae etc.
scribe: Andrea Brenta; dated 11 March 1477; rubrication of fol. 1 by Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 6855]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 45 (p. 205)
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata
Vitt. Em. 1004 scribe (p. 198; Cat. no. 65 footnote 8, p. 421)
[New York | Pierpont Morgan Library: M 946]
4 leaves (with details) are digitally available: fols. 1, 38, 85v, and 130. The resolution is low quality.
Rubr. 46 (p. 205)
Gabriele Capodilista, Itinerario di Terra Santa
Vitt. Em. 1004 scribe (Cat. no. 65 footnote 8, p. 421)
[unknown private collection]
not digitized
Rubr. 47 (pp. 205 and 383)
p. 79; illustration of detail of fol. 75v
Scriptores Historiae Augustae
anonymous scribe (Cat. no. 69 footnote 9, p. 422)
[Rome | Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II: MS. 1004]
The entire manuscript has been digitized; its rubrication is voluminous and very complex.
Rubr. 48 (pp. 205 and 384)
Domizio Calderini, Panegyric to newly elected Prefect of Rome, Giovanni della Rovere
Vitt. Em. 1004 scribe; dated 18 December 1474; marginal annotations by Sanvito (p. 205); also rubrication by Sanvito on fols. 1v, 2, and 8v
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 735]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 49 (p. 205)
Aristotle, De animalibus (Latin translation by Theodore Gaza)
anonymous scribe; line of small blue capitals by Sanvito, all other colored epigraphic capitals by an imitator
1476
Cat. no. 59 footnote 9, p. 419 says epigraphic capitals of the first and last lines of fol. 8 and underdrawings for faceted initials at the beginning of each book are by Sanvito. The faceted initials appear on fols. 32v, 47, 62v, 82v, 104v, 112v, 132v, 160, 169, 187v, 204v, 228v, 248v, 269v, 286v, 304v, but those on 132v, 228v, and 248v are not by him.
[I think line 1 of fol.1 was written by Sanvito]
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 2094]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
ROME 1477–1483
Rubr. 50 (p. 243)
Euclid, Elementa
scribe of Vitt. Em. 1004; some initials and small initials by Sanvito
[London | British Library: Add. MS. 22783]
not digitized
Rubr. 51 (p. 243)
Lorenzo Lippi, Proverbia
Apuleius scribe; initial heading by Sanvito, but none of the faceted initials
[London | British Library: Sloane MS. 2017]
not digitized
Rubr. 52 (p. 243)
Hippocrates, De insomniis
scribe: Andrea Brenta; title page by Felice Feliciano; title on parchment cover, inscription on fol. 8v and rubrication on fol. 9 by Sanvito
1479
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3681]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 53 (p. 243)
Claudius Ptolemaeus, Almagest [Latin translation with commentary by Georgius Trapezuntius]
anonymous scribe; rubrication on fols. 1, and small faceted initials on fol. 5v, 10, 13, 16v, and 55v (but not others) by Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 2058]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 54 (p. 243)
Titus Livius Andronicus, Ab urbe condita, Decas III
scribe: possibly Cassius Parmensis (Giovanni di Antonio di Sasso); headings but not incipit by Sanvito
[Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 37]
2 images digitized from color microfilm available at Vivarium—fols. 1v and 2 (Sanvito)
Rubr. 55 (p. 243)
Titus Livius Andronicus, Ab urbe condita, Decas IV
scribe: possibly Cassius Parmensis (Giovanni di Antonio di Sasso); rubrication on fols. 65v, 105, 159, 182v, 197, 215, 229, and 237v by Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 1851]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 56 (p. 243)
Josephus Flavius, Antiquitates Iudaicae and De vetustate iudaecorum
anonymous scribe; dated 19 June 1478; underdrawing for faceted initials possibly by Sanvito
[London | British Library: Harley MS. 3699]
fol. 1 and details of fols. 53v, 71, 132v, and 221v are available digitally; all include faceted initials
Rubr. 57 (p. 243)
Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia
scribe: Antonio Sinibaldi; all titles by Sanvito
[New York | New York Public Library, Spencer Collection: MS. 20]
5 leaves (taken from color slides) are available digitally in low resolution—fols. 1 and 131 have rubrication by Sanvito
Rubr. 58 (p. 243)
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni
Ferrara Ovid scribe; heading and incipit on fol. 1 by Sanvito
[Torino | Biblioteca Reale: Saluzzo 9]
not digitized
Rubr. 59 (p. 243)
Aristotle, Ethica, Economica [Latin translation of Leonado Bruni]
scribe: Giovanni Rinaldo Mennio
[Valencia | Biblioteca Universitaria: MS. 388 (formerly 828)]
The entire manuscript has been digitized; fol. 6 is also available at World Gallery of Art
Rubr. 60 (p. 243)
Sextus Pomponius Festus, De verborum significatione and Paulus Diaconus, Epitome
scribe: Giuliano Cenci (pupil of Pomponio Leto); rubrication on fol. 1 by Sanvito
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 5958]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 61 (p. 243)
Titus Livius Andronicus, Ab urbe condita, Decas I
rubrication by Sanvito on fol. 1; rubrication on fols. 27v, 28, 56, 110, 133, 152, 170, 189, and 211v by an imitator
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Borgh. lat. 368]
The digitized manuscript is watermarked.
Rubr. 62 (p. 243)
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata
Apuleius scribe (possibly Giuliano Cenci); heading of fol. 1 by Sanvito
[Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 206]
not digitized
Rubr. 63 (p. 243)
Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, Saturnalia
anonymous scribe (possibly Giuliano Cenci); rubricated by Sanvito who may also have done small epigraphic initials (p. 132)
[Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. Z.471 (=1559)]
not digitized
Rubr. 64 (Erdreich pp. 77 and 85; illustration p. 84 of fol. 102v)
Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae imperatorum
scribe: Antonio Sinibaldi
1477
[Berlin | Staatsbibliothek Preussicher Kulturbesitz: cod. lat. fol. 28]
fol. 102v available at Wikimedia Commons
ROME c.1483–1485 (or earlier)
Rubr. 65 (p. 263)
Caecilius Cyprianus, Epistolae and Opuscula
scribe: Giovanni Rinaldo Mennio
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: MS. lat. 1659]
not digitized
Rubr. 66 (p. 263)
Titus Livius Andronicus, Ab urbe condita, Decas I
scribe: Niccolò Mangona; binding by Felice Feliciano
[formerly Milano | Borlotti heirs]
not digitized
Rubr. 67 (p. 263)
Strabo, De situ orbis [Latin translation by Guarino Veronese and Gregorius Tifernatis]
scribe: Giovanni Rinaldo Mennio; first heading (fol. 1) by Sanvito
[Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 3]
17 images (16 details) digitized from microfilm at Vivarium—fol. 1; and details of fols. 28v, 47, 73v, 87v, 105, 105v, 137, 160v, 182v, 201, 216v, 234, 253v, 273v, 293 and 311
Rubr. 68 (p. 263)
Gaius Plinius Secundus, Epistolae
scribe: Jacopo Aurelio Questenberg; first heading and large marginal initials in blue by Sanvito
[London | British Library: Add. MS. 23777]
For a summary of Jacopo Aurelio Questenberg’s hand compared to that of Sanvito see Cat. no. 91 footnote 7, p. 428.
not digitized
Rubr. 69 (p. 263)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De amicitia
scribe: Jacopo Aurelio Questenberg or Tophio; first heading by Sanvito
[London | British Library: Harley 2690]
fol. 1 (with rubrication by Sanvito) has been digitized
ROME c.1486–1489
Rubr. 70 (p. 285)
Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars amandi
anonymous scribe
[London: Sotheby’s 23 June 1987, lot 92]
not digitized
ROME (and PADUA) c.1489–1493
Rubr. 71 (p. 307)
Albius Tibullus, Elegiae
scribe: Antonio da Salla; rubrication and corrections by Sanvito on fol. 1
[London | British Library: Harley MS. 4059]
fol. 1 (with rubrication by Sanvito) has been digitized
ROME c.1493–1501
Rubr. 72 (p. 319)
Fra Giocondo, Sylloge
anonymous scribe (possibly Giuliano Cenci); heading to dedicatory letter, calendar, inscriptions in Greek capitals and a few in Latin capitals by Sanvito (Cat. no. 96 footnote 12, p. 430)
[Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. XIV,171 (=4665)]
not digitized
Rubr. 73 (pp. 15 and 76)
Missale Romanum (Rome: Stephan Plannck, 1496)—printed on vellum with rubrication by Sanvito.
[London | British Library: IB. 18578]
not digitized
PADUA c.1501–1511
Rubr. 74 (p. 343)
Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera
scribe: Giuliano Cenci (pupil of Pomponio Leto)
[London | British Library: Add. MS. 11355]
The entire manuscript is digitally available.
Rubr. 75 (not in de la Mare and Nuvoloni)
Publius Ovidius Naso, Opere [Oxford | Bodleian Library: MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 15]
scribe: Johannes de Itro
4 leaves, one spread and one detail are viewable online; they include fols. 1 and 56 rubricated by Sanvito and fol. 95 rubricated by de Itro.
Notes
1. After I compiled this inventory I was able to acquire a scan of “Bartolomeo Sanvito” by Nicolas Barker in The Book Collector vol. 59, no. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 11–31. Barker’s article includes a list of manuscripts rubricated by Sanvito compiled—like mine—from de la Mare and Nuvoloni (p. 46). From it I have added Rubr. 73, a rubricated incunabula which I had originally overlooked.
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