Part 1: ff. 1r-7v and 16r-21v
Description: - Paper - Coutelas, similar to Briquet 5128-5134, ff. 1-7 and 17-21; Monts similar to Briquet 11667-11677, f. 16. - 296 x 213 mm - 2 columns of 37-39 lines, frame-ruled in lead.
Country: Italy
Assigned Date: s. XIV2
Dated by scribe: No
Document: No
Number of Scribes: 1
Script: Gothic.
Other Decoration: Spaces reserved for initials; numerous manicules and other marginal finding aids, sometimes in the shapes of animals, e. g. an octopus and a snake.
Notes: Abundant marginal annotation in contemporary hand.
Text 1: ff. 1r-5v
Author: Cicero (Quintus Tullius Cicero)
Title: Paradoxa stoicorum
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: nunquid existet cui voluptas, cui divicie . . .
Explicit: . . . etiam inopes ac pauperes existimandi sunt. Amen. Marci Tullii Ciceronis Paradoxa ad Brutum contra Marcum Antonium expliciunt. Deo gratias. Amen.
Notes: Begins in I.12.
Image 1: f. 1r Marginal commentary; tie marks, right column; space reserved for initial.
Image 2: f. 1v Marginal bracket in the shape of an octopus (with five legs); space reserved for initial.
Image 3: f. 5v Manicule.
Text 2: ff. 6r-7r; f. 7v blank
Author: Pseudo Seneca
Title: De remediis fortuitorum liber
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Licet cuntorum poetarum carmina gremium . . .
Explicit: . . . R. Quid est quod ille sequitur fugientem?
Notes: Ends incomplete at IX.2; short text regarding the city of Ancona added in a later hand.
Text 3: ff. 17r-19v; f. 16r-v blank.
Author: Cicero (Quintus Tullius Cicero)
Title: Somnium Scipionis
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Cum in Africam venisem . . .
Explicit: . . . Ego somno solutus sum. Deo gratias refero et sanctissime matri eius. Amen. Explicit Somnium Scipionis Africani minoris excerptum ex sexto de re publica Marci Tullii Ciceronis. Amen.
Image 4: f. 18v Marginal bracket in the shape of a snake.
Image 5: f. 16r Frame-ruling in lead; watermark visible.
Image 6: f. 17r Guide letter in space reserved for initial.
Text 4: ff. 19v-21r; f. 21v blank.
Author: Pseudo Seneca
Other Associate: Martin of Braga (Martinus Bracarensis)
Title: De moribus
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Omne peccatum est actio . . .
Explicit: . . . iudices. Mulit sunt
Notes: Ends incomplete at sentence 128.
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Part 2: ff. 8r-15v
Description: - Paper - Croix grecque Briquet 5439. - 296 x 213 mm - 37 long lines, frame-ruled in lead.
Country: Italy
Assigned Date: s. XV1
Dated by scribe: No
Document: No
Number of Scribes: 1
Script: Humanistic cursive.
Other Decoration: Space reserved for large opening initial.
Text 1: ff. 8r-15r; 15v blank.
Author: Leonardo Bruni
Title: Isagogicon moralis discipline ad Galeottum Ricasolanum
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Si ut vivendi, mi Galeot . . .
Explicit: . . . ut boni simus, virtutes exerceamus. Finis.
Image 7: f. 8r Space reserved for large opening initial.
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Part 3: ff. 22r-103v
Description: - Paper - Numerous, including (from Briquet) Monts Scorpion Huchet Basilic Cercle and others. - 296 x 213 mm - 36-52 long lines ruled by three vertical folds.
Country: Italy
Assigned Date: s. XIVex -XVin
Dated by scribe: No
Document: No
Number of Scribes: 3; scribe 2, f. 73r-v; scribe 3, ff. 82v-84v; remainder by scribe 1.
Script: Gothic and gothic cursive.
Other Decoration: Calligraphic initials, gothic display script to delineate sections of text.
Notes: Abundant marginal commentary.
Text 1: f. 22r
Author: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
Title: Rerum familiarium
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Insta ergo dum votui [sic] . . .
Explicit: . . . sapientem novisse satis est.
Notes: Excerpts from VII.17.14-15 and III.4
Text 2: ff. 22r-24r
Author: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
Title: Epistola metrica
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Ursa peregrinis modo . . .
Explicit: . . . vox [sic] eximet evo.
Notes: Identified by Giuseppe Billanovich as the only extant copy of Petrarch's youthful work of 166 hexameters to which Petrarch refers in Rer. familIII.4 (see "Bibliography" field for this manuscrcipt for citation).
Image 8: f. 22r Marginal citations.
Image 9: f. 24v
Text 3: ff. 24v-26r
Other Associate: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
Title: Epistola magistri Petri de Parma de suo alienoque mixtim contexta . . .
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Quam cum princibus . . .
Explicit: . . . circumspice casus. Franciscus Petrarcus in sua bucolica. Deo gratias amen.
Notes: 84 unpublished hexameters in imitation of Petrarch's Epistola metricaon ff. 22r-24v of this codex.
Text 4: ff. 26r-27r
Title: Miraculum beatissimi confexoris sancti Nicolai
Title: Hagiography
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Tres pueros votum . . .
Explicit: . . . parce Deus et miserere mei. Deo gratias.
Image 10: f. 26r Calligraphy.
Text 5: ff. 27v-33v
Other Associate: Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
Title: Preambulum sive introductio libri Lucani editum per magistrum Petrum de Parma
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Pro introductione libri Lucani . . .
Explicit: . . . iesus crus inventus.
Image 11: ff. 32v-33r Catchword, gothic display script.
Text 6: f. 35r-v
Other Associate: Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
Title: Accessusto Sallust, Catilinae coniuratioand Bellum Iugurthinum
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Communis intentio omnium auctorum . . .
Explicit: . . . dicit falso quasi de natura sua etc.
Notes: Definitions of manus f. 34r; f. 34v blank; several additional Latin verses, f. 35v.
Image 12: f. 34r
Text 7: ff. 35v-39v and 74r-81v
Title: Definitions
Language(s): Latin
Notes: Definitions in alphabetical order.
Image 13: f. 36r Marginal commentary and source annotations.
Image 14: f. 81r Definitions in alphabetical order.
Text 8: ff. 40r-41v
Author: Lupus Servatus (Lupus Ferrariensis)
Other Associate: Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)
Title: De metris Boetii libellus
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: utitur autem hoc bis . . .
Explicit: . . . animalia permeant figuris.
Notes: Incomplete
Image 15: ff. 39v-40r
Image 16: ff. 41v-42r Calligraphic initial.
Text 9: ff. 41v-55v
Author: William of Conches (Guilelmus de Conchis)
Other Associate: Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)
Title: Commentary on Boethius's De Consolatione philosophiae
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Boetius nobilissimus romanus . . .
Explicit: . . . unde dicendum est 'hue etc.'. Hic sit finis.
Notes: Excerpt from Strabo Geografia etymological material added, f. 55v.
Image 17: ff. 40v-41r
Image 18: f. 43v Lemmata underlined.
Text 10: ff. 56r-63r
Other Associate: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Title: Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Intentio Ovidii est in hoc opere . . .
Explicit: . . . Prudens et impiger a se residuum speculetur et investiget, nam, ulterius scriberem, tempus non habui.
Image 19: f. 56r
Text 11: ff. 63r-67v
Author: William of Conches (Guilelmus de Conchis)
Other Associate: Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)
Title: Commentary on Boethius's De Consolatione philosophiae
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: O qui perpetua mundum. Cum philosophia ostensura sit . . .
Explicit: . . . bonum et perfectum etc. Quoniam igitur etc.
Notes: Commentary on Book 3, m.9 and p. 10 of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy
Image 20: f. 63r
Text 12: ff. 68r-69v
Title: Sermo de laudibus vite disciplinate
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Disciplinati ab indisciplinatis ita differunt . . .
Explicit: . . . ineffabili felicitate circumflui. Amen.
Notes: One verse from Vergil's Aeneid(VI.823) added in a later hand, f. 69v.
Image 21: ff. 68v-69r Marginal source annotations.
Image 22: ff. 69v-70r Virgilian verse added.
Text 13: ff. 70r-72v
Title: Sermo de homine conventuando in rhetorica, grammatica et poesi . . .
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Hunc unum nostre civitatis . . .
Explicit: . . . his qui post me futuri sunt relinquam.
Notes: Epitaphs, one by Dante, f. 73r-v.
Image 23: ff. 72v-73r Change of hand.
Text 14: ff. 82r-84v; ff. 85r-87v blank.
Other Associate: Petrus Helias
Title: Orations
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Petrus Helye ibidem arte gramatice . . .
Explicit: . . . foveat, augeat et conservet.
Image 24: ff. 81v-82r Change of hand.
Text 15: ff. 88v-90v
Title: Descriptio provinciarum Ytalie tempore dominii romanorum
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Prima provincia Ytalie Venetia est . . .
Explicit: . . . intra eam invenisset latebram. Finit.
Notes: Blessings, commentary on the zodiac, f. 88r-v.
Text 16: ff. 91r and 94r-95v
Title: Liber de mirabilibus Romae
Language(s): Latin
Incipit: Urbs Rome habet turres trecentas . . .
Explicit: . . . quod erat oraculum Neronis.
Notes: Antiphonals, f. 91v; medical and scientific material, ff. 92r-93v and 96v; historical material, 96r.
Image 25: f. 93v Marginal symbols of the zodiac.
Image 26: f. 96v
Text 17: ff. 97r-98v
Title: Epigraphs
Language(s): Latin
Image 27: f. 97v
Text 18: f. 99r; f. 99v blank.
Author: Fazio degli Uberti
Title: Dittamondo
Language(s): Italian
Incipit: Salerno, Vulturno . . .
Explicit: . . . di Roma el gran podere.
Text 19: ff. 100r-103v
Author: Honorius Augustodunensis
Title: Imago mundi
Language(s): Latin
Notes: Ends incomplete.
Image 28: f. 103v
