[Regulae artificialis memoriae]. Istoria Attile Hunnorum regis.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ragone, Jacopo.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Attila, -453--Biography.

Attila.

Attila, -453.

Memory--Early works to 1800.

Memory.

Mnemonics--Early works to 1800.

Mnemonics.

Biography.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

biographies (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by J. Rosenthal, 1952.

Physical Description:

24 leaves : paper ; 207 x 147 (136 x 105) mm bound to 208 x 145 mm

Production:

[Italy], 1471.

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Contains the text of a work on strategies of memorization by Jacopo Ragone. Also contains the Istoria [i.e., Historia] Attile Hunnorum regis, written by Juvencus Caelius Calanus in the 12th century.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger based on incipit (f. 1r). First work appears to have been composed in 1434 (f. 1r).

Title of second work from caption title (f. 16r).

Inscription on the upper cover also gives the date of 1434 for the first work, as well as the name of the author of the second work. The last two lines of the inscription are difficult to read. This inscription might be contemporary with the manuscript.

First work, incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Iusso tuo, princeps illustrissime, artificialis memorie regulas ... (f. 15v) Dixi, valle dus [?] et felicitorum princeps collendissime [?].

Second work, incipit and explicit: (f. 16r) Hunni qui et Navares nunc autem hungari ... (f. 23v) mensis dies id con cesare in senatu acceptis vulneribus confessus interit.

Second work, colophon: (f. 23v) Laus deo Amen. L. D. S. scripxit hoc die 29 1471.

Collation: Paper, 24; 1-2¹²; 1-24; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 23 long lines; ruled in lead.

Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand.

Binding: 15th-century Italian limp vellum wrapper with original tie extant.

Origin: Written in Italy in 1471 (f. 23v).

Cover is worn in the area around the spine.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 148-149 (Ms. Lea 13).

Rosenthal, J. Bibliotheca medii aevi manuscripta ... Kat. 90 (Munich, n.d.), no. 184.

Sabbadini, R., in Giornale storico della litteratura italiana, 47 (1908), pp. 36-37.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 67

Contains:

Calanus, Juvencus Coelius. Historia Atticae Hunnorum regis.

OCLC:

155962952

Online:

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