Ars epistolandi ... [etc.].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Vecelli, Antonius de.

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500.

Latin language.

Latin language--Grammar.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Pieve di Cadore (Italy).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

treatises

notarial documents

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalogue 18 (1966), no. 6.

Gift of Philip J. Nordell, 1966 (inside lower cover).

Physical Description:

89 leaves : paper ; 230 x 210 mm bound to 310 x 220 mm

Place of Publication:

[Pieve de Cadore, Italy], 1414-1497.

Language Note:

Latin, with some Italian.

Biography/History:

Notary, and probably the jurist who died in 1462, mentioned in Tavola genealogica in S. Ticozzi, Vite dei pittori Vecelli di Cadore. Great-grandfather of Titian.

Summary:

Collection of various letters and documents, including much poetry. The poetry treats topics such as language, games and taverns, religion, and love. Also contains treatises on Latin grammar and punctuation. Includes some extracts on morality and proverbs from a variety of classical and Christian authors, including Seneca, Cicero, Augustine, and Pope Innocent I (f. 22v-27v). Many of the documents are notarized by Antonius de Vecelli (example, f. 16r). Many of the leaves are heavily damaged due to dampness.

Contents:

1. f.1r-3r: [Epistolae et supplicationes]

2. f.8r-11v: Regula sive modus tenendus in examinatione testium.

3. f.12r-16r: Modus et ordo tenendus.

4. f.16v-22r: De punctis fiendis quin scribitur.

5. f.22v-27v: Moralites sive auctoritates.

6. f.28r-31r: Primum in notificando nuptias videlicet de publichatu.

7. f.32r-36v: [Copies of legal texts]

8. f.37r-50r: Tractatus de diversis significationibus verborum.

9. f.53r-64r: [De verbis et versus in quibus continentur omnia deponentia]

10. f.65r-70v: [Grammatical treatise]

11. f.71r-73v: Lectura super summam grammaticalem data per Antonium filium Ser Verceli / Petrus de Avila.

12. f.74r-75v: [De arte metrica]

13. f.79v-84v: [Collection of poems]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from inside upper cover.

Foliation: Paper, 89 pages; [1-89]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Script: Written in a variety of cursive scripts.

Decoration: Decorated initials, some colored in red, blue and yellow (example, f. 9r, f. 12r). Several manicules.

Binding: Modern boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Origin: Written in Pieve di Cadore, Italy (Zacour-Hirsch) from 1414 (f. 70v) to 1497 (f. 89v).

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), Supplement A (1), The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 13-14 (Ms. Latin 230).

Selected poems listed in Walther, Hans. Inita carminum ac versum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1257

OCLC:

257707697