Cambridge. Corpus Christi College, Parker Library MS 78
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- UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library
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- MS 078
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- Date
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- 1400 - 1499
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- Latin
- Middle English
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 078: Domenico di Bandino, Fons memorabilium uniuersi (book 5, De uiris claris)
- Domenico di Bandino, Fons memorabilium uniuersi (book 5, De uiris claris)
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- Dominicus Bandini (1335?-1418)
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- Author
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- Domenico di Bandino
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- Domenico di Bandini
- Bandini, Domenico
- Dominicus Bandinus
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- Description
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Summary: CCCC MS 78 contains a fifteenth century copy of De uiris claris, the fifth book of Domenico di Bandino's (d. 1413) Fons memorabilium uniuersi. The Fons memorabilium is an encyclopaedia derived from a large number of classical and medieval sources and De uiris claris is dedicated to the study of man both as a biological entity and more generally, featuring a number of biographies of medieval and early renaissance figures. A letter written in Florence survives as part of the binding, suggesting that the book is of Italian origin, but how and when it came to Parker is uncertain.
Contents :
1r-236v - Domenico di Bandino, Fons memorabilium uniuersi (book 5, De uiris claris)
Note: Begins imperfectly in an account of man in general. (De partibus humani corporis)
incipit: (1r) Differt a muliere. Quia sexus non uariat speciem
Note: The next sections are on Vir, Natura, Corpus, and on all parts of the body ending with Plante
Note: (4r) De etatibus hominis
incipit: (4r) Decursis hominum partibus contra etates ponende sunt
explicit: (5r) Nunc ia(m) incepturus scribere particulares uiros inopiam (incipiam) ab inicio dolorum ac misseriarum gencium Primo (?) ab inicio peccati prothoparentum, seruato tamen ordine alphabeti, dicam igitur deo duce
incipit: (5r) Abacuc propheta ut scribit Jeronimus in prefatione Abacuc
Note: The writer makes constant reference to other compilations of his own: de montibus, de ciuitatibus, de sectis hereticorum, de sectis philosophorum, de arboribus, de lapidibus et gemmis etc. etc.
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