Jeffery & Yates, Descriptive inventories: Austrian libraries, v. 2, p. 272-274
Notes:
1r (15c) coat of arms. The ms probably came to St. Georgenberg during the reign of the humanistic abbot Kaspar von Augsburger
Provenance:
Ownership note on fol. 1r: Monasterii Montis S. Georgii (seventeenth century); and fol. 2r and fol. 81v: Ad Bibliothecam Monasterii Montis S. Georgii 1659.
Physical Issues:
Folio
Reproduction:
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35 lines, 1 col. Ruled and framed. Gatherings of 5 bifolia; last gathering of 6. Horizontal catchwords on last verso.
Script:
humanistic
Number Scribes:
1
Support:
Parchment
Other Decoration:
Lombard initials with penwork extensions and infilling.
Notes:
Numbered in a recent hand. Colophon on f. 69r shows the main work was completed at Pavia (Ticini) at the 21st hour, March 26, 1466. All the other contents are in the last fascicle, which is in the same hand.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
1r-69r
Author:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Supplied Title:
De montibus, lacubus, fluminibus, stagnis, et paludibus, et de nominibus maris
Rubric:
Viri clarissimi ac poete illustrissimi Johannis Boccacy de Certaldo civis florentini De montibus et fluminibus fontibus siluis lacubus et maribus liber incipit feliciter. Prohemium.
Incipit:
Aorrexeram equidem fessus a lobore quoddam egregio
Explicit:
Si quid vero congruum suis conforme scriptis compe
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The rubric at the beginning is badly faded and transcribed here with the help of the typed catalogue. On this work see GW 4482. On the quthor see Cosenza I, 625-627. DBI 10, 838-856. 69v blank.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
70r-72r
Supplied Title:
Oration of Franciscus Petrarch before the court of the King of Hungary
Rubric:
Francisci petrarce Laureati brevis collatio quam fecit coram rege ungarie missus pro legeto a communitate venetorum.
Incipit:
Serenissime rex et mitissime princeps. Quanta de v
Explicit:
Isti domini mei et ego erimus parati esse et tract
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
72r-72v
Author:
Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374.
Supplied Title:
Africa
Status Of Text:
Chapter 6:885-918
Rubric:
Infra scripta oratio est in Affrica Francisci petrarce laureati. Et est magonis qui fuit hasdrubalis fratris hannibalis filius.
Incipit:
His postquam medio iuvenis stetit equore penus
Explicit:
Fraternosque suosque simul patrieque dolores.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
This extract often circulated on its own, as for instance in Zurich Zentralbibl. Car C 100ff. 68r-v (cat. Mohlberg 111. See the critical edition of the entire Africa, ed. Nicola Festa, Edizione nazionale delle opere di Francesco Petrarca 1 (Florence 1926
Manuscript Text
Folio:
72v-74v
Author:
Francesco Petrarca, 1304-1374.
Supplied Title:
Extempore verses
Rubric:
Infra scripti versus Francisci petrarce Laureati diciti extempore. Novissime dum in italiam remearet anno domini 1337 mense januario et vix tandem ad litus romanum per multa pericula pervenisset . . .
Incipit:
Fluctibus obsessi ventis in turbine cante
Explicit:
Quodque prius mallem ianitiumlatus ago.
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
74v
Supplied Title:
Epitaph
Rubric:
Epitaphion quod fecit pro quodam suo nepote puerulo m ccc lxviii, xiiii kalendis junas [?] hora nona.
Incipit:
Vix mundi novus hosper iter viteque velantis
Explicit:
Nec queror huic celo restituendus eram.
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
74v-75v
Supplied Title:
Collacio romani imperii ad carthaginense et babilonici.
Status Of Text:
The words "ad charthaginense" were crossed out.
Incipit:
Collatio babillonici et romani imperii. Primo sicu
Explicit:
tempora diligenter duxeris computanda.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
These texts occur also in Schlagl 117 (HMML 2989) f. 230r-v.
Revisit:
1
Manuscript Text
Folio:
75v-76r
Incipit:
Nolite afflictare Lucretia Satis maximum argumentu
Explicit:
In montes qui se nocentem supplicio affecit.
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
76r-77r
Incipit:
Noli me pater sanctissime tuque luce quidam
Explicit:
et sibi persuadeant impudice lititam fore vitam.
Language(s):
Latin
Manuscript Text
Folio:
77r-80r
Supplied Title:
Vita Francisci Petrarchae
Incipit:
Cum merito animadvertere illustris et egregie poet
Explicit:
conditus in basilica virginis alme. Anno domini Mc
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
See Zumkeller 751a, p. 614.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
80r-81v
Supplied Title:
The document announces the award of a poet's crown to FRANCISCUS PETRARCHA by the senate of Rome in 1341.
Incipit:
Ad eternam rei memoriam Ursus Anguilarie Comes et
Explicit:
ac populi multitudine universa v. idus aprilis. An