Porcelii poetae cl[arissimi] et oratoris Ortographia.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Pandone, Porcelio, approximately 1405-approximately 1485.

Contributor:

Simonetta, Cicco, 1410-1480, dedicatee.

Parisino, D. Andreas, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Money--Early works to 1800.

Money.

Latin language--Orthography and spelling--Early works to 1800.

Latin language.

Latin language--Orthography and spelling.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

treatises

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by D. Andreas Parisino, (signature, f. 3r, 83v, 85v).

Sold by Ernesto Immelen (Rome), 1952.

Physical Description:

86 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 167 x 117 (92 x 70) mm bound to 167 x 120 mm

Production:

[Italy], 1460.

Other Title:

Ortographia

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Brief treatise by Porcelio Pandone addressed to Cicco Simonetta, a statesman in the ducal chancery of Milan, on the origin and use of money in antiquity (f. 3r-10v), followed by a longer unidentified treatise on the subdivision of grammar dealing with spelling and with the nature and value of letters and their combinations (f. 12r-83r), attributed here to Pandone. The preface of the first treatise (f. 3r-4v), here titled De sextertio et talento (De sestertio et talento), differs from the edition printed in 1459 (with the title Opusculum aureum de talento) in having a second sentence that refers to the Orthographia and being dated 1460 rather than 1459.

Contents:

1. f.3r-10v: De talento et sextertio / Porcelius

2. f.12r-83r: Ortographia.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title and author from rubric (f. 3r).

Incipit/explicit of first work: Et si duram mihi provinciam humanissime vir Cicce Pollio tradidisti (f. 3r) ... Tu humanissime mi Pollio cum meliora inveneris poetae tuo Porcelio impartiare (f. 10v).

Incipit/explicit of second work: Orthographiam ex quatuor grammaticae partibus unam esse nemo inficiatur (f. 12r) ... Quia placuit magis consuetudine conprobari (f. 83r).

Foliation: Paper, 86; [1-86]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout: Written in 17 long lines; ruled in ink.

Script: Written in humanistic script by a single hand.

Decoration: One four-line and two three-line iIlluminated white vine-stem initials in gold on blue, red, and green grounds (f. 3r, 4v, 12r) with borders on the left margin; rubricated initials, headings, and underlining.

Binding: Contemporary vellum; small fragments of an earlier manuscript leaf with Latin text in Gothic rotunda script are adhered around the sewing supports to strengthen the spine.

Origin: Written in Italy on 1 February 1460 (f. 4v).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 10 (Ms. Latin 46).

Listed in Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Iter Italicum: a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, Vol. 5 (Warburg Institute & E. J. Brill, 1990), p. 373 (Lat. 46).

Publications about:

Rozza, Nicoletta. "Per un'edizione critica del De sestertio et talento di Porcelio de' Pandoni." In Spolia: Journal of medieval studies, anno XVI, n. 6 n.s., 2020, pp. 220-259 at pp. 221-222.

Porcelio, Padone de'. De sestertio et talento. Critical edition and translation (Italian) by Nicoletta Rozza; introduction and translation (English) by Andrew Burnett. Latinae humanitatis itinera nova 6. Napoli: Paolo Loffredo, [2022] at pp. 91-92.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 840.

Contains:

Pandone, Porcelio, approximately 1405-approximately 1485. Opusculum aureum de talento.

OCLC:

155918821