Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 205

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Library

UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library

Shelfmark

• MS 205

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Date

• 1442

Language

• Latin

Title

• Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 205: Flavio Biondo, Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii
• Flavio Biondo, Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Flavius Blondus (1388?-1463)

  Role

  • Author

  Original form

  • Flavio Biondo

  Other form

  • Flavius Blondus
  • Blondus, Flavius, 1392-1463
  • Blondus Flavius Foroliviensis
  • Blondus
  • Blondus, Flavius
  • Biondo, Flavio, 1388-1463
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Description

• Summary: MS 205 contains a mid-fifteenth-century copy of Flavio Biondo (1392-1463), Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii probably made in Florence, c. 1442. Although Thomas James' catalogue records the presence of this manuscript in Corpus Christi by 1600, it does not appear in Parker's register. The volume appears to have been intended as a gift for Thomas Beckington (1390?-1465), bishop of Bath and Wells, who was a correspondent of Biondo.

  
  

  Contents :

  
  

  1r-202v - Flavio Biondo, Historia ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii

  Note: (1r) The initial has a half-length figure of a man in upright cylindrical red cap, and dark red robe, holding a book

  Note: This MS. contains the Third Decade of Flavius Blondus's Historia ab inclinatione Romani imperii, beginning

  incipit: (1r) Laetanti iam mihi et exultanti

  Note: (Decas III, Liber I, ed. Basel, 1559, p. 393)

  Note: and proceeds to Lib. X of this Decade

  Note: Then follow two books of a fourth Decade, of which the first is identical with the xith book of Decas III in the Basel edition. The second is inedited: an extract relating to a mission to Abyssinia is printed by G. Williams (Correspondence of Bishop Bekynton II, 227)

  Note: The books begin as follows

  Note: (22v) Liber II

  Note: (42v) Liber III

  Note: (60v) Liber IV

  Note: (76v) Liber V (initial cut out)

  Note: (92r) Liber VI

  Note: (108v) Liber VII

  Note: (125r) Liber VIII

  Note: (139r) Liber IX

  Note: (156v) Liber X

  Note: Ending

  explicit: (172v) renouaturos expectare curauit

  rubric: (172v) Blondi Flavii Forliuiensis historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decadis quartae liber primus

  incipit: (172v) Interea dum principio anni cuius gesta

  Note: Partial border with curious flourishing in silver

  Note: Ends

  explicit: (189r) et in ueronensibus retenta

  rubric: (189r) Incipit quartae decadi(s) liber secundus foelicissime

  incipit: (189r) Annus hic primus et quadra[gra]gesimus supra millesimum et quadringentesimum

  Note: Ends

  explicit: (202v) et pacis constituendae arbitrium audiendum cremonam conuocari curauit

  Note: Each book has a fine initial on burnished gold (Liber IX on silver): and the first lines of each are in Roman hand

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