Bartolomeo Sanvito—An Inventory (Part III)
A GUIDE TO MANUSCRIPTS MISATTRIBUTED TO BARTOLOMEO SANVITO AND TO SCRIBES ASSOCIATED WITH HIM
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 third inventory is largely taken from Appendix IV: List of Rejected Attributions (pp. 383–386) in de la Mare’s corpus of the works of Sanvito listed above. [1] I have added other scribes from references elsewhere in the book (and my own researches) who are relevant to Sanvito. [2]
N.B. The two previous Sanvito inventories derived from de la Mare and Nuvolon are: 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 II): A Guide to the Manuscripts Rubricated or Corrected by Bartolomeo Sanvito.
Index of Scribes
with a selection of other manuscripts written by them
Solinus scribe
(pp. 68, 108 and 384)
• Caius Julius Solinus, Polyhistor [Oxford | Bodleian Library: Canon. Class. Lat. 161]—misattribution no. 4
• Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, De vita Caesarum [Oxford | Bodleian Library: Canon. Class. Lat. 133]
• Cicero, Orationes [Cologny-Geneva | Fondation Martin Bodmer: Ms. lat. 51]
Strabo scribe
(pp. 20, 68, 70, 74, 87, 88, 132, and 140)
• Strabo, Geographia [Albi | Bibliothèque Municipale: MS. 77] 1459
Ptolemy scribe
(pp. 18, 68, 70, 102, 103, 114, 188 and 384–385)
• Ptolemy, Cosmographia [Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 17542]—misattribution no. 5; epigraphic capitals on fol. 1 by Sanvito
• Gaius Sallustius Crispus, De coniuatione Catilinae; and De bello Iugurtino [Rome | Biblioteca Casanatense: MS. 1443 (former B.VI.10)]—fols. 16-34 by Sanvito; fols. 24v–221v and colored epigraphic capitals on fol. 71 by Ptolemy scribe
• Pietro da Montagnana, Reportationes relativorum [Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. XIII, 28 (=3989)]
• Augustine, De sancta trinitate contra iudeos [Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. II, 4 (=2224)]
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae quaestione [Oxford | Bodleian Library: Auct. F.2.19]
• Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae [Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 8290]—Persius in a different hand
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orationes [Norfolk | Holkham Hall: MS. 389]—copied by four scribes; Ptolemy scribe is scribe 4 responsible for fols. 172–208
• Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae [Leiden | Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit: Voss. Lat. Q. 117]—copied by two scribes; Ptolemy scribe responsible for fols. 41–81
manuscript copied out by the Ptolemy scribe but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3162]—heading and incipit in colored epigraphic capitals and one line of minuscules on fol. 1 by Sanvito
Apuleius scribe
(p. 243)
• Apuleius, Herbarium [London | British Library: Add. MS. 21115]
manuscripts copied out by the Apuleius scribe but rubricated or partially rubricated by Sanvito:
• Lorenzo Lippi, Proverbia [London | British Library: Sloane MS. 2017]
• Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata [Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 206]
Ferrara Ovid scribe
(pp. 202 and 243)
• Ovid, Fasti [Ferrara | Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea: MS. II.141]
manuscript copied out by the Ferrara Ovid scribe but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni [Torino | Biblioteca Reale: Saluzzo 9]
Flavius Josephus scribe
(pp. 31, 183, 205, 206, 243, and 298)
• Josephus Flavius, Bellum Judaicum [Valencia | Biblioteca Universitaria: MS. 836 (formerly 819)]—rubricated by a Sanvito imitator
• Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1471]—1475
• Quintus Curtius Rufus, De rebus gestis Alexandri magni and Pseudo Pliny, De viris illustribus [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1741]
King’s MS. 29 scribe
(pp. 22 and 149; Dickerson footnote 51, p. 393)
manuscripts copied out by the King’s MS. 29 scribe but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae [London | British Library: King’s MS. 29]
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae [Glasgow | University Library: Hunter MS. 18 (S.2.8)]
Pietro da Montagnana scribe
(p. 383)
• Leonardo Bruni, Cicero novus; Plutarch, Demosthenis vota (translated by Leonardo Bruni) [Chicago | Newberry Library: 97, 3; formerly [New Haven | Yale University Library: Marston MS 178]—misattribution no. 1
• Eusebius/Jerome, Chronicle [Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Plut. 67.4]
• Pietro da Montagnana, Commentary on Plautus [London | British Library: Harley MS. 2454]
• Servius, Commentary on Virgil [London | British Library: Harley MS. 2680]
• Eusebius/Jerome, Chronicle [London | British Library: Harley MS. 3957]
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, De oratore [Oxford | Bodleian Library: Canon. Class. Lat. 247]
• Leonardo Bruni, Commentarius rerum graecarum [Oxford | Bodleian Library: Canon. Misc. 86]
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tusculanae quaestione [former J.R. Abbey JA 7367]
Vitt. Em. 1004 scribe
(pp. 33, 76, 198, 205, 220, 236, 238, 243, and 383–384; Cat. no. 65 footnote 8, p. 421)
• Works by Bessarion and Perotti [Mantua | Biblioteca Comunale: H.I.35]—misattribution no. 2
• Lorenzo Lippi, Proverbia [Ravenna | Biblioteca Classense: Cod. 94]
• Petrus de Crescentiis, Rei rusticae libri [Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 2313]
Icones plantarum cum explicatione latina [Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 2277]
manuscripts copied out by the Vitt. Em. 1004 scribe but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Scriptores historiae augustae [Rome | Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Vittorio Emanuele: MS. 1004]—rubrication by Sanvito
• Miscellany of excerpts from Livy and Cicero [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1505]—rubrication possibly by Sanvito
• Albius Tibullus, Elegiae and Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina [Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. XII 81 (=4649)]
• Gabriele Capodilista, Itinerario di Terra Santa [unknown private collection]
• Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata [New York | Pierpont Morgan Library: M 946]
• Domizio Calderini, Panegyric to Giovanni della Rovere on his appointment as Prefect of Rome 18 December 1474 [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 735]—inscriptional plaque at the beginning and some marginalia by Sanvito
• Euclid, Elementa [London | British Library: Add. MS. 22783]
manuscripts possibly by the Vitt. Em. 1004 scribe:
• Giovanni Lucido Cattaneo, Epicedion [Norfolk | Holkham Hall: MS. 496]—misattributed to Sanvito by James Wardrop
• Silvestro da Lucca, treatise on Gonzaga racehorses [Venice | Biblioteca Giustiniani]
Bernardo Bembo scribe
(p. 103)
manuscript copied out by the Bernardo Bembo scribe but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Basil, Xenophon and Jerome, Oracula [Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Ashb. 133]
Bessarion scribe
(p. 386)
• Plato, Dialogi [Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. X, 14 (=1857)]—misattribution no. 8
Julianus Antonii de Prato
(p. 171)
• Book of Hours [Cambridge | The Fitzwilliam Museum: MS. 336]
manuscripts copied out by Julianus Antonii de Prato but rubricated by Sanvito [3]:
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, De inventione [Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Plut. 50.16]
• Rhetorica ad Herennium [Florence | Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana: Plut. 50.16]
Giovan Pietro Arrivabene (1439–1504)
(pp. 27, 183 and 272)
manuscript copied out by Giovan Pietro Arrivabene but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Eusebius of Caesarea / Jerome, Chronici Canones [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 743]
Emilio Boccabella (alias Lelius Antonius Augustus)
pupil of Pomponio Leto
(pp. 204 and 212)
• Apuleius, Epigrammata, etc.[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3353]
• Philippus Callimachus Experiens, De rebus Hungaricis, etc. [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. Ottob. lat. 2280]
• Angelus Lapus Faventinus, Carmina; Franciscus Tranchedinus, Carmina; Iohannes Albinus Lucanus, Epigrammata [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. Urb. lat. 1193]
manuscripts copied out by Emilio Boccabella but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgica and Appendix Virgiliana [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3255]
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 2014]
Guido Bonatti da Mantua
(pp. 29, 48, 183, 190, 198, 334, and 384; Cat. no. 62 footnote 5, p. 420)
manuscripts copied out by Guido Bonatti but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Scriptores historiae Augustae [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1304]
• Publius Cornelius Tacitus [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1422]
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Opera [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Chigi H.V.169]
• Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae Caesarum [Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 5811]
• Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 11487]
• Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina; Publius Ovidius Naso et al [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat Chig. H.V.121]
manuscripts possibly by Bonatti:
• Ludovico Andreasi, Elegiae [Mantua | Biblioteca Comunale: J VI 27]—misattribution no. 3
Andrea Brenta (c.1454–185)
(pp. 205 and 243)
manuscripts copied out by Andrea Brenta but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Andrea Brenta, Oratio funebris Lysiae etc. [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 6855]
• Hippocrates, De insomniis [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3681]—1479
Francesco Buzzacarini
(p. 29)
manuscript copied out by Francesco Buzzacarini with underdrawing for faceted initial by Sanvito:
• C. Julius Hyginus, De sideribus tractatus [New York | New York Public Library, Spencer Collection: MS. 28]
Girolamo Campagnola (c.1482–c.1515)
(p. 358)
• Martino Mastellari, Panegyricus in Georgium Cornelium [Padua | Biblioteca Civica: B.P. 1417/3]—by Sanvito but originally attributed to Campagnola
Franciscus de Camuciis
(pp. 108, 129, 149, and 385)
• Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae [Leiden | Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit: Voss. Lat. Q. 117]—copied by two scribes; Camuciis responsible for fols. 1–40
manuscript copied out by Franciscus de Camuciis but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid [London | British Library: MS. Harley 2726] (p. 149)—signed for Camuciis by Sanvito (fol. 194v); dated 8 August 1463
manuscript possibly by Franciscus de Camuciis but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae [Berne | Burgerbibliothek: 517]
Giuliano Cenci
pupil of Pomponio Leto
(pp. 243, 329, 343, and 354)
manuscripts copied out by Giuliano Cenci but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Sextus Pomponius Festus, De verborum significatione and Paulus Diaconus, Epitome [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 5958]
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Opera [London | British Library: Add. MS. 11355]
possibly by Giuliano Cenci but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata [Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 206]
• Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, Saturnalia [Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. Z. 471 (=1559)]
• Fra Giocondo, Sylloge [Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. XIV, 171 (=4665)]
Matteo Contugi da Volterra (fl. 1456–1491)
(pp. 28, 85, 140, 183, 204, and 205; Cat. no. 18 footnote 12, p. 404)
• Caius Plinius Secundus, Naturalis historia [Torino| Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria: J.I.22–23 (formerly i.VI.12)]
• Eusebius Caesariensis, Canones Evangeliorum, etc. [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 10]
• Girovanni Antonio Campano, Orazioni [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 324]
• Leonello Chieregato, Epistola…, etc.[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 336]
• Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 365]
• Isidorus of Seville, Jerome, et al [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 392]
• Quintus Curtius Rufus, De rebus gestis Alexandri magni [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 427]
• Bible texts, etc. [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 548]
manuscript copied out by Matteo Contugi da Volterra but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Francesca Petrarca, Canzoniere and Trionfi [London | British Library: Harley MS. 3567]
Felice Feliciano (1433–1479)
(pp. 74, 132, 136, 164, 243, and 263)
• Ramon Lull, Ars compendiosa inueniendi ueritatem, etc. [Oxford | Bodleian Library: MS. Canon. Misc. 123]
• Francesco Petrarca, Trionfi and Rime [Trieste | Biblioteca Civica A. Hortis: Petr. I 5]
• Jerome, Vita Malchi [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 5257]
• Giovanni Marcanova, Collectio Antiquitatem [Modena | Biblioteca Estense Universitaria: lat. 992 (alfa.L.5.15)]
• Felice Feliciano, Alphabetum Romanum [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 6852]
manuscript copied out by Andrea Brenta with title page by Felice Feliciano and rubricated by Sanvito:
• Hippocrates, De insomniis [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3681]—1479
Johannes Nardi Fusci de Itro (Giovanni da Idria)
(p. 171)
manuscripts copied out by Johannes (Nardi Fusci) de Itro but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Gaius Sallustius Crispus, De coniuratione [London | British Library: Add. MS. 11950]
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Opere [Oxford | Bodleian Library: MS. Canon. Class. Lat. 15] [4]
Pomponio Leto (Julius Pomponius Laetus) (1428–1498)
(pp. 30, 129, 198, 204, 208, 212, 266, 332, and 352)
manuscripts copied out by Pomponio Leto but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrammata [London | British Library: King’s MS. 32]
• Publius Papinius Statius, Thebaides [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3279]
• Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Bellum civile [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3285]
• Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, Punica [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3302]
• Albius Tibullus, Elegiae; Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina; Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae [Rome | Biblioteca Casanatense: MS. 15]
manuscript possibly copied out by Pomponio Leto but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti and Amores; Pseudo-Ovidius, Nux etc. [Ferrara | Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea: MS. II.141]
Niccolò Mangona (fl. 1482–1503)
(p. 263)
manuscript copied out by Niccolò Mangona but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Titus Livius Andronicus, Ab urbe condita, Decas I [formerly Milano | Borlotti heirs]
Giovanni Rinaldo Mennio (fl. 1472–1494)
(pp. 243 and 263)
• Pope Gregory I, Moralia in Job [Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 2231]
• Lucii Iunii, Moderati Columellae rei rusticae [Valencia | Universitat de València, Biblioteca Histórica: BH Ms. 54]
• Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, De obedientia De principe [Valencia | Universitat de València, Biblioteca Histórica: BH Ms. 52]
• Thucydidis, De bello Peloponnesiaco [Valencia | Universitat de València, Biblioteca Histórica: BH Ms. 379]
• Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, De obedientia De principe [Valencia | Universitat de València, Biblioteca Histórica: BH Ms. 833]
manuscripts copied out by Giovanni Rinaldo Mennio but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Aristotle, Ethica, Economica [Latin translation of Leonado Bruni] [Valencia | Biblioteca Universitaria: MS. 388 (formerly 828)]
• Caecilius Cyprianus, Epistolae and Opuscula [Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: MS. lat. 1659]
• Strabo, De situ orbis [Latin translation by Guarino Veronese and Gregorius Tifernatis] [Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 3]
Partenio Minuzio Pallini
pupil of Pomponio Leto
(p. 204)
• Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3274]—misattributed contributions by Sanvito on fols. 1v and 111v by Marco Buonocore
manuscript copied out by Partenio Minuzio Pallini but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Publius Papinius Statius, Sylvae and Pseudo-Ovidius, Epistola Sapphus [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3595]
Bartolomeo da Piazzola and/or Girolamo Pereti da Bassano
(Dickerson p. 42 and footnote no. 24, p. 392)
manuscripts possibly copied out by Girolamo Pereti da Bassano or Bartolomeo da Piazzola but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Publius Terentius Afer [London | British Library: Add. MS. 11908]
• Virgil, Aeneid [London | British Library: MS. Harley 2726]
possible scribes for:
• St. Basil, Homilia in principium prouerbiorum (in Latin and Greek) [Oxford | Bodleian Library: MS. Canon. Gr. 108]
• Buonaccorso da Montemagno, De vera nobilitate [London | British Library: Harley MS. 3332]
Cassius Parmensis (Giovanni di Antonio di Sasso)
pupil of Pomponio Leto
(pp. 204 and 243)
manuscripts copied out by Cassius Parmensis (or possibly by him) but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica [Torino | Biblioteca Universitaria Nazionale: E.II.22]—1470
• Titus Livius Andronicus, Ab urbe condita, Decas III [Vienna | Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Cod. 37]
• Titus Livius Andronicus, Ab urbe condita, Decas IV [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 1851]
scribe working for Vespasiano da Bisticci (probably Gabriel de Pistorio)
(p. 205)
manuscripts copied out by a scribe working for Vespasiano da Bisticci (probably Gabriel de Pistorio) but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Opera [London | British Library: Harley MS. 3510]
Jacopo Aurelio Questenberg
(pp. 55, 56, 263, 302, 314, and 385–386; Cat. no. 91 footnote 7, pp. 428–429; Cat. no. 96 footnote 13, p. 430)
• Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge (first recension) [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Borg. lat. 336]—misattribution no. 6
• Jacopo Zeno, De vitis pontificum [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Chig. F.VIII 198]—misattribution no. 7
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, De officiis [Sotheby’s 23 June 1987, lot 93]
• Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae [Copenhagen | Kongelige Bibliothek: S.496]—two scribes, the first possibly Tophio, Questenberg the second
• Book of Hours [private collection]
manuscripts copied out by Jacopo Aurelio Questenberg but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Gaius Plinius Secundus, Epistolae [London | British Library: Add. MS. 23777]
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, De amicitia [London | British Library: Harley 2690]—or possibly by Tophio (p. 263)
Cat. no. 91 footnote 7 (pp. 428–429) has a description of Questenberg’s corsiva compared to that of Sanvito and a Questenberg bibliography.
Nicolaus Riccius Spinosus (Nicolo di Antonio di Pardo de Ricci) (1434/1435–1490)
(p. 205)
• Francesco Petrarca, Canzone e Sonetti [Baltimore | The Walters Art Museum: W.409]
• Francesco di Antonio del Chierico and Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum; Bellum Civile; Bellum Alexrinum; Bellum Africanum; Bellum Hispaniense [Los Angeles | The J. Paul Getty Museum: Ms. Ludwig XIII 8]; with Gherardo del Ciriago as second scribe
manuscript copied out by Nicolaus Riccius but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Poggio Bracciolini, Opera [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 224]
Antonio da Salla
(pp. 59, 149, 307, and 376)
• Liber chronicorum canonum [New York | Pierpont Morgan Library: M.767]
manuscript by Antonio da Salla with rubrications by Sanvito:
• Albius Tibullus, Elegiae [London | British Library: Harley MS. 4059]—corrections by Sanvito on fol. 1
manuscript by the King’s MS. 29 scribe with headings by Antonio da Salla and Sanvito:
• Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Saturae; Aulus Persius Flaccus, Saturae [London | British Library: King’s MS. 29]
manuscript possibly by Antonio da Salla (instead of the King’s MS. 29 scribe) with unfinished faceted initial by Sanvito:
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae [Glasgow | University Library: Hunter MS. 18 (S.2.8)]
Biagio Saraceni (Blasius de Saracenis)
(pp. 17, 19, 26, 108, 178, and 272)
• Eusebius/Jerome, Chronicle [Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Cod Lat. IX, 1(=3496)]—1450
Antonio Sinibaldi (1443–after 1502)
(pp. 77, 85, and 243)
• Coelius Sedulius, Carmen paschale [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 36]
• Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere e Trionfi; Leonardo Bruni, Vita di Francesco Petrarca [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Urb. lat. 681]
manuscripts copied out by Sinibaldi but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia [New York | New York Public Library, Spencer Collection: MS. 20]
• Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae imperatorum [Berlin | Staatsbibliothek Preussicher Kulturbesitz: cod. lat. fol. 28]
Piero Strozzi (fl. 1443–1490)
(p. 205)
• Vitruvius, De architectura [London | British Library: Arundel 122]
• Titus Andronicus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita [Munich | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Clm 15731]
manuscript copied out by Piero Strozzi but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippicae [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Pal. lat. 1488]
Franciscus Tianus (Francesco de Tianis) (f. 1467–1479)
(pp. 171 and 204)
manuscripts copied out (or possibly copied out) by Franciscus Tianus but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Oration by Jacopo Zeno on the election of Paul II 16 September 1464 [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 3704]
• Jerome, Epistolae, vol. 2 [Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 8911]
Tophio (Antonius Dominici de Toffia)*
(pp. 25, 26, 130, 171, 172, 172, 174, 180, 204, 205, 216, and 263)
• Aulus Gellius [London | British Library: Burney MS. 175]
• Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, Convivia Saturnalia [Cambridge | University Library: Add. MS. 4095]—dated 5 April 1466
• Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, Commentarium in somnium Scipionis [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Ottob. lat. 1137])—all but fols. 33–33v which are by Sanvito (pp. 26, 180, and 216)
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum romanarum (translated from the Greek by Lampugnino Birago) [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 1819]
• Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae [Copenhagen | Kongelige Bibliothek: S.496]—two scribes, the first possibly Tophio
manuscript possibly copied out by Tophio but rubricated by Sanvito:
• Sextus Aurelius Propertius, Elegiae [Groningen | Universiteit Bibliotheek: MS. 159]—three scribes, one possibly Tophio (p. 204)
*Several manuscripts now attributed to Sanvito by de la Mare were originally attributed to Tophio: Iacopo Ragona, De artificiali memoria [London | Victoria and Albert Museum, National Art Library: MS. L. 1957/1349] (Cat. no. 13), Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vitae Imperatorum [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Barberiniano Lat. 98] (Cat. no. 21), Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae ad Brutum, Quintum, et Atticum; Pseudo-Cicero, Epistola ad Octavianum [Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Vat. lat. 5208] (Cat. no. 22), and Caius Julius Caesar, Commentari de bello Gallico et civile [Milano | Biblioteca Ambrosiana: A.243 inf.] (Cat. no. 32). See the Introduction (pp. 26–27) for a summary of this history involving misattributions by Sidney Cockerell, James Wardrop, Alfred Fairbank, José Ruysschaert, and de la Mare herself.
Misattributions
No. 1 ( p. 383)
Leonardo Bruni, Cicero novus; Plutarch, Demosthenis vota (translated by Leonardo Bruni)
Piero da Montagnana scribe
[Chicago | Newberry Library: 97, 3; formerly [New Haven | Yale University Library: Marston MS 178]
probable attribution to Sanvito by Laurence Witten
No. 2 (p. 383)
Works by Bessarion and Perotti
Vitt. Em. 1004 scribe
[Mantua | Biblioteca Comunale: H.I.35]
with headings rubricated by an imitator of Sanvito; misattributed to Sanvito by Ubaldo Meroni (1914–1992)
No. 3 (p. 384)
Ludovico Andreasi, Elegiae
possibly Guido Bonatti
[Mantua | Biblioteca Comunale: J VI 27]
misattributed to Sanvito by Tammaro De Marinis (1878–1969) and Ubaldo Meroni (1914–1992)
No. 4 (p. 384)
Solinus, Polyhistor
anonymous scribe
[Oxford | Bodleian Library: Canon. Class. Lat. 161]
misattributed to Sanvito by Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt
No. 5 (p. 384)
Ptolemy, Cosmographia
1457
[Paris | Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Ms. lat. 17542]
misattributed to Sanvito by Giordana Mariani Canova
No. 6 (p. 385)
Fra Giovanni Giocondo, Sylloge (first recension)
scribe: Jacopo Aurelio Questenberg
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Borg. lat. 336]
No. 7 (p. 386)
Jacopo Zeno, De vitis pontificum
scribe: Jacopo Aurelio Questenberg
[Vatican City | Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana: Chig. F.VIII 198]
misattribution to Sanvito by Mons. José Ruysschaert (1914–1993)
No. 8 (p. 386)
Plato, Dialogi
probably by the Bessarion scribe
[Venice | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Lat. X, 14 (=1857)]
misattribution to Sanvito by Andrea Cuna
No. 9 (p. 386)
Marco Businello, Rime
anonymous scribe
[Bergamo | Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai: MA 125]
misattribution by Guglielmo Gorni
Notes
1. All page numbers refer to 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)
2. Although not scribes by profession, several individuals (e.g. Pomponio Leto) are included here because they wrote out manuscripts relevant to Sanvito’s work.
3. I am skeptical of de la Mare’s attribution of rubrication by Sanvito.
4. This manuscript is not mentioned in de la Mare and Nuvoloni. Available online images show rubrication by Sanvito on fols. 1 and 56 but by de Itro on fol. 95.
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