Parts 1 and 3: German regions ; Erfurt, 15th century, 1456 - Parts 2, 5 and 6: German regions ; Erfurt, 15th century, mid - Part 4: German regions ; Erfurt, 15th century, 1457
Language
Latin
Title
Composite manuscript, six parts (Latin)
De casibus virorum illustrium
Philobiblion
De claris mulieribus
De mulieribus claris
Opus quadripartitum
Historia captae a Turcis Constantinopolis
Historia de excidio civitatis Constantinopolitanae
Historia de Excidio Constantinopolis
De rota fortunae
Liber chronicorum Erfordensis
Chronicon Erfordense
1. (ff. 1-59) De casibus virorum illustrium / Giovanni Boccaccio, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 60-121) De claris mulieribus / Giovanni Boccaccio, and other text(s). - And other part(s), BPL 31
Content:
Part 1 contains: (ff. 1r-58v) De casibus virorum illustrium /
Giovanni Boccaccio. Incomplete. - (ff. 59r-59v) Philobiblion /
Robert Holcot. Excerpts.
Part 2 contains: (ff. 60r-121r) De claris mulieribus / Giovanni
Boccaccio. - (f. 121v) Philobiblion / Robert Holcot. Excerpts.
Part 3 contains: (ff. 122r-133v and 145r-160v) Opus quadripartitum
/ Cyril of Jerusalem.
Part 4 contains: (ff. 134r-139v) Historia captae a Turcis
Constantinopolis / Leonard of Chios. - (ff. 140r-142r) Historia de
excidio civitatis Constantinopolitanae / Gottfried Langius of
Lüneburg. - (ff. 142r-144v) Disticha about the death of the
unmarried daughter of count William IV van den Bergh, and Maria of
Nassau.
Part 5 contains: (ff. 161r-167v) De rota fortunae.
Part 6 contains: (ff. 168r-285v) Chronicon Erfordense. Note:
Origin: (ff. 1r-58v) Based on the colophon on f. 57r.
Date: Of parts 1 and 3 based on the colophons: (f. 57r)
"Completusque est liber per me Gotfridum Walack de Bercka ad portam
celi In Erffordia Collegiatum Amplonianum Anno christi 1456 In
vigilia Bartholomei apostoli. - (160v) "In Erffordia per Johannem
de lynss scriptus anno 1456".on f. 57r and f.160v. - Of part 4
based on colophon: (f. 142r) "Scriptum per Henricum erwini de
Budingen Anno domini 1457 erffordie. Huic sis propicia scriptori
queso maria. Natum posce tuum ferat hunc ad regna polorum. Sciendum
quod excidium civitatis Constantinopolitane de quo presens historia
memoratur factum est Anno 1453." - Of other parts: mid 15th
century. - "Doubtlessly together since very early date", according
to Gumbert 2009.
Script: (ff. 1r-58v) Part 1 written by Gotfridus Wallack, Erfurt
(f. 57r). - Part 3 written by Johannes de Lynss, Erfurt (160v). -
Part 4 written by Henricus Erwini de Budingen, Erfurt (142r).
Binding: Post-medieval binding.
Textual: (ff. 1r-58v) Alphabetical index on ff. 57v-58v. - (ff.
59r-59v, 121v) Edited under the name of Richard of Bury but written
by Robert Holcot. Excerpts of chs. VI, VII (on ff. 59r-59v) and
chs. VII, XVI and XX (on ff. 121v). - (ff. 134r-139v) The Historia
was written as a letter to pope Nicholas V. - (ff. 142r-144v) Added
in a later hand (16th/17th century). Incipit: "Iam nec Hamadriades
possunt gaudere puellae...". - (ff. 161r-167v) Incipit: "Cum ad
haustus felliti...".
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870
Description (Catalogus principum 1597):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:360092
Description (Senguerdius & 1716):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399
Description (Molhuysen 1912):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3151098
Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294
Description (Gumbert 2009):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3161419
Also described by MMDC. Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
