Della natura delle cose libri VI / tradotti dall' idioma latino nel volgar fiore[n]tino da Alessandro March[et]ti, fiorentino professore ordinario di filosofia nello studio di Pisa.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Lucretius Carus, Titus.

Contributor:

Marchetti, Alessandro, 1632-1714, translator.

Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723, dedicatee.

Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, Baron, 1743-1823, former owner.

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.

Stanitz, John D., former owner.

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De rerum natura. Italian

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Didactic poetry, Latin--Translations into Italian.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Philosophy, Ancient--Poetry.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Epicureans (Greek philosophy).

Materialism.

Italian poetry--17th century.

Italian poetry.

Materialism--Early works to 1800.

Epicureans (Greek philosophy)--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Poetry.

codices (bound manuscripts)

poems

translations (documents)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Possible ownership inscriptions on title page and end of extant text, 1746 (f. 1r, 147r).

Formerly owned by Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (armorial bookplate, inside upper cover); sold at auction at Messrs. Evans (London), 1823, to bookseller Thomas Thorpe.

Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 2571 (stamp on front flyleaf, label on spine).

Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978.

Appears in Kraus's List 203 (1983), no. 206.

Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 10.

Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.

Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle in honor of Amey Hutchins, Manuscripts Cataloging Librarian, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 2013.

Physical Description:

148 leaves : paper ; 155 x 104 (99-106 x 65-75) mm bound to 164 x 120 mm

Production:

[Italy], [before 1746]

Language Note:

Italian.

Summary:

17th-century Italian translation of De rerum natura by Alessandro Marchetti, a generally anti-Aristotelian teacher of philosophy and mathematics at Pisa. Publication of this translation was forbidden in Italy, so it was still being copied by hand in the 18th century. The translation breaks off early in Book 4 (4.265, f. 146v, with a dangling catchword), followed by a final page of text from slightly later in Book 4 (4.384-394, f. 147v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from title page (f. 1r).

Foliation: Paper, 148; [i], 1-88, 90-148, contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on each page, lower right corner.

Layout: Written in 13-22 long lines; outer margin marked by folding.

Script: Written in cursive script by a single hand.

Decoration: Scrollwork in ink on title page (f. 1r); small ornaments in ink at the end of Book 2 (f. 85r) and the beginnings of Book 3 and Book 4 (f. 85v, 138v).

Binding: 18th- or 19th-century parchment with T. Lucret Caro del Marchett in gilt on spine; ribbon marker.

Origin: Written in Italy, with an inscription dated 9 Jan. 1746 (f. 147r).

Local Notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Cited in:

Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 26 (LJS 179).

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 179

OCLC:

761216388

Online:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page