Politica

Creator:

Giovanni Calderia., creator

Published/Created:

N.pl
between 1750 and 1800

Physical Description:

ff. 48 : paper ; 160 x 120 mm.

Related Links:

https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms715.htm

Notes:

Manuscript on paper of a facsimile of Iohannes Calderia (Giovanni Calderia, 15th century), member of a Venetian family, Politica (De praestantia Venetae politiae libri V ad Antonium Vinciguerra). Written in 5 books of unnumbered chapters. Our manuscript is traced from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud. Misc. 717, ff. 101r-150v; in that manuscript the text is preceded by two other treatises by Calderia: De virtutibus moralibus et theologicis and De oeconomia Veneta. Each page consists of two leaves of extremely thin paper pasted together. The paper is now dark brown and brittle (causing loss of text in the lower margins of pp. 1-6). For reasons of conservation the bifolios have now been cut into singletons and these have been encapsulated in transparent Mylar sleeves united in an album. Written by one hand in Humanistica Semitextualis Libraria.
No decoration; the space provided for the initials is not used.
Binding: Eighteenth-century, kept separately. Marbled brown leather over pasteboard, each cover decorated with a gold-tooled floral border and gold-tooled doublure margin; gold-tooled spine with paper label containing the hand-written number 24068. Marbled paste-downs.
Cite as: Giovanni Calderia, Politica. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Antonio Vinciguerra (1440/46-1502/03) was a satirical poet, secretary of the Venetian Signoria; see about him Dizionario enciclopedico della letteratura Italiana (Laterza), v. 5 (Bari, Rome, 1968), p. 463.
See about the Bodleian codex CMD Oxford, 631, pl. 719. For other manuscripts copied from the same Italian manuscript, dated 20 Oct. 1473 (see p. 96), see Kristeller, Iter Italicum, v. 1, pp. 195, 229; v. 2, p. 238 etc.

Topics:

Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven

Topics:

Venice (Italy) -- Politics and government

Topics:

Giovanni Calderia

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Manuscripts

Format:

Mixed Material

Content Type:

Archives or Manuscripts

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

Call Number:

Beinecke MS 715

Orbis Record:

9658922

Orbis Barcode:

39002091599515

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

10603015

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

9998972

PID:

digcoll:3701468