Italy, Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, S.XXVI.4

Italy, Cesena, Biblioteca Malatestiana, S.XXVI.4

Composite manuscript

Physical Description
  • Material: Parchment
  • Pages: 136 + 107 leaves
  • Leaves Format: not available
  • Dimensions: 311 x 224 mm

Detailed Description
  • Foliation:
    1-7, 7bis, 8-41, 41bis, 42-123, 123bis, 123-240.
    The DARE-foliation offers the correct counting of folios.
    An old numeration from the 15th century on ff. 1r- 136r , sometimes erased. A contemporary foliation with a pencil.
    The first part counts 136 leaves and not 133, because the numeration jumps three times (cf. ff. 8r , 43r , 126r ). These folios are missing in the scan. The scan also had a defect picture of f. 240v , which is added from another scan (cf. x1 ). F. 243r- 243v is not a complete folio and has no script.
  • Collation:
    The manuscript consists of two originally different parts (ff. 1r- 136v ; ff. 137r- 242v ).
    Part I: I-VI^10 (cf. 1r - 60v ) VII^8 (cf. 61r - 68v ) VIII-XIII^10 (cf. 69r - 129v ) XIV^8 (cf. 130r - 136v ). In quinternions. Part II: I-VIII^12 (cf. 137r - 231v ) XIX^10 (cf. 233r - 242v ) In sesternions.
  • Decoration:
    An initial on f. 1r on coloured background and with gold leaf units. Spaces reserved for initials.
    Long Commentary on the Physics (ff. 137r- 242v ): Initials (and other decorations) are missing.
  • Layout:
    The text is set in two columns.

    40 written lines per page.
  • Hand Description:
    Two hands (one for each part). The letters from the first part are older then the half of the 15th century. It is written in brown ink, but the title and headings are written in red ink. The second part is written by a Gothic semi-cursive hand from the 14th century mostly using black ink, but red for the initials.
  • Binding Description:
    Wooden planks. Leather covered. Low decorations. With metallic elements. Binding restored in the 18th and in the 20th century.
  • Provenance:
    One former possessor was Giovanni di Marco as one can read a note of ownership on the front paper: " Magistri Johannis de Marci Arminio ." An antique signature was given in brown ink in the 15th century: "26D" (cf. 243r on the backcover inside). The librarian Serafino Zanotti (1798 - 1804) wrote the old signatures in black ink on the frontcover inside: "Il° Fila / XXVI°Pluteo / IV° " (cf. x2 ).
History
  • Origin Date: Early 14th century until middle of 15th century
  • Origin Place: not available
  • George Lacombe , Aristoteles Latinus Vol. Pars Posterior, Rome (1955) , p.905
  • Gerhard Baader , "Die Bibliothek des Giovanni di Marco da Rimini. Eine Quelle zur medizinischen Bildung im Humanismus.", in: Kurt Treu (ed.), Studia codicologica (1977) , pp. 46f.
  • Anna Manfron , Appendice II. Catalogo, a cura di Anna Manfron, in La biblioteca di un medico del Quattrocento. I codici di Giovanni di Marco da Rimini nella Biblioteca Malatestiana, Torino, Allemandi (1998) , pp. 238-240.
  • Giuseppe Maria Muccioli , Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Malatestianae Bibliothecae fratrum minorum conventualium Vol. Tomo II, Cesena (1784) , p. 173
  • Raimondo Zazzeri , Sui codici e libri a stampa della Biblioteca Malatestiana di Cesena. Ricerche e osservazioni, Cesena, Vignuzzi (1887) , pp. 480-482.
Content
Miscellaneous Medical Commmentaries on Galen and Hippokrates 1r - 136v
  • Incipit:
    Rubr.: "Incipit Liber galieni de rigore tremore iectigatione et spasmo.."
    [Primo testo: De rigore tremore iectigatione et spasmo]: Quoniam Anaxagoras Filius Anchalis...

  • Explicit:
    [Primo testo: De rigore tremore iectigatione et spasmo]: ...ex Libro de ingenio sanitatis

  • Note:
    No script on f. 136v .

Averroes Long Commentary on the Physics 137r - 242v
  • Incipit:
    Quoniam dispositio scientie...

  • Explicit:
    ...ad exponenda verba libri huius iam debemus transcire et cet.

  • Note:
    The prologue is added in the end (f. 242r ).