The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
St. Basilius, De poetis legendis 5r - 32r;
Pseudo(?) Plutarchus, De liberis educandis 35r - 72r;
Statius, Achilleid 73r - 110r;
Illuminations (1)
Preface to St. Basilius, De poetis legendis 3r - 5r;
Preface to Plutarchus, De liberis educandis 33r - 35r;
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Illuminations (2)
Written in Italy in the third quarter of the fifteenth century, this manuscript contains works by St. Basilius, Pseudo(?) Plutarch, and Statius. The first two texts are Greek treatises on education that were translated into Latin, bearing witness to the Italian humanist revival of, and interest in, the study of ancient Greek. The translators of those texts, Leonardo Bruni (d.1444) and Guarino Veronese (d.1460), both studied Greek under the tutelage of Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras (d.1415), who was one of the first to introduce Greek literature to Western Europe. The third text by Statius was included as part of a compendium of texts frequently used by students studying Latin beginning in the tenth century. During this same period, Statius was confused with the rhetorician Statius Ursulus of Toulouse, who is mentioned in Jerome’s translation of Eusebius’ chronicles as active in 56 CE. Statius' full Roman name was Publius Papinius Statius, however due to his conflation with the rhetorician in the tenth century, there are a number of manuscripts that begin Statius' name with “Sucurlus” instead of “Publius.” This can be found for instance in an Italian incunabula that is contemporary with W.358, and which is also found in the Walters’ collection (91.1119). This suggests that this error may have been a regional phenomenon in Italy.
Humanist script, three different hands, one for each text
Cataloger: Berlin, Nicole
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Polidori, Elisabetta
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 818, no. 373.
Berry, Edmund G. "The De Liberis Educandis of Pseudo-Plutarch." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 63 (1958): 387-99.
Hays, Gregory. "The Pseudo-Fulgentian Super Thebaiden." In Vertis in Usum: Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney, edited by Cynthia Damon, John F. Miller, and K. Sara Myers. 200-218. Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 2012.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Italy
Third quarter of the 15th century CE
book
Original Binding
Bound in Italy, third quarter of the fifteenth century; brown leather (calf?) over beech boards; blind tooled in a series of fillet lines; brass rosette-shaped studs at the junctures of some of the lines, at the border and in the center of each side, as well as on the edge of each compartment on the spine; evidence for a scarlet-stained single strap-clasp anchored to the front cover by two brass rosette-shaped studs; the trefoil-shaped brass catch plate still preserved on the back cover, previously decorated with a paschal lamb
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is Greek, Modern (1453-).
Created third quarter of fifteenth century, Italy, for unknown patron
Thomas Payne and Henry Foss, Booksellers, London, ca. 1830; no. 611 in their catalog
Sir Thomas Phillipps, London, ca. 1830, by purchase from Payne and Foss
Maggs Bros., London, purchased from a sale of Phillipps' manuscripts on May 1, 1903 at Sotheby's London
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Maggs Bros.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Italy
Third quarter of the 15th century CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin. The secondary language of this manuscript is Greek, Modern (1453-).
Created third quarter of fifteenth century, Italy, for unknown patron
Thomas Payne and Henry Foss, Booksellers, London, ca. 1830; no. 611 in their catalog
Sir Thomas Phillipps, London, ca. 1830, by purchase from Payne and Foss
Maggs Bros., London, purchased from a sale of Phillipps' manuscripts on May 1, 1903 at Sotheby's London
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Maggs Bros.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Written in Italy in the third quarter of the fifteenth century, this manuscript contains works by St. Basilius, Pseudo(?) Plutarch, and Statius. The first two texts are Greek treatises on education that were translated into Latin, bearing witness to the Italian humanist revival of, and interest in, the study of ancient Greek. The translators of those texts, Leonardo Bruni (d.1444) and Guarino Veronese (d.1460), both studied Greek under the tutelage of Byzantine scholar Manuel Chrysoloras (d.1415), who was one of the first to introduce Greek literature to Western Europe. The third text by Statius was included as part of a compendium of texts frequently used by students studying Latin beginning in the tenth century. During this same period, Statius was confused with the rhetorician Statius Ursulus of Toulouse, who is mentioned in Jerome’s translation of Eusebius’ chronicles as active in 56 CE. Statius' full Roman name was Publius Papinius Statius, however due to his conflation with the rhetorician in the tenth century, there are a number of manuscripts that begin Statius' name with “Sucurlus” instead of “Publius.” This can be found for instance in an Italian incunabula that is contemporary with W.358, and which is also found in the Walters’ collection (91.1119). This suggests that this error may have been a regional phenomenon in Italy.
Humanist script, three different hands, one for each text
Cataloger: Berlin, Nicole
Cataloger: Herbert, Lynley
Cataloger: Walters Art Museum curatorial staff and researchers since 1934
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbold, Rebekah
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Polidori, Elisabetta
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935, p. 818, no. 373.
Berry, Edmund G. "The De Liberis Educandis of Pseudo-Plutarch." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 63 (1958): 387-99.
Hays, Gregory. "The Pseudo-Fulgentian Super Thebaiden." In Vertis in Usum: Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney, edited by Cynthia Damon, John F. Miller, and K. Sara Myers. 200-218. Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 2012.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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