Codex Laurentianus
The Codex Laurentianus refers to the approximately 3,000 individual manuscripts in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence , which were part of the historical inventory when the library opened in 1571.
Provenances
Most of the volumes come from the library collected by various members of the Medici family . Under Leo X the books came to the Palazzo Madama in Rome, under Clement VII , who also commissioned the building of the library, the collection returned to Florence. The basic holdings also include the libraries of the humanists Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and Francesco Filelfo , as well as the codices that were given to Pope Leo X or acquired by him in Rome to supplement the family library . Before the library opened, Cosimo I also confiscated manuscripts from the Dominican convent of San Marco in favor of the Laurenziana.
Preservations
The manuscripts were placed in the plutei , the lectern, in a publicly accessible place, but previously bound in a uniform manner. The manuscripts are still in these bindings with the Medici coat of arms. The signature was noted on each tape, which is derived from the pluteus, e.g. B. P. 69. , and the serial number, e.g. B. 18. , composed. This results in the signature Plut.69.18 , a 15th century manuscript with Xenophon's writings .
Other larger collections are the Medicei Palatini , the Conventi soppressi from the abolition of the order by Napoleon in 1808, to whom the library of the Convent of San Marco also fell victim, but these form a separate collection of San Marco . Here you can find the libraries of the humanists Niccolò Niccoli , Poggio Bracciolini , Lorenzo and Vespasiano da Bisticci as well as Giorgio Antonio Vespucci (1434–1514). In 1884 around 2000 manuscripts from the Ashburnham collection were acquired for the Laurenziana.
Belong to the Plutei
- Codex Laurentianus 32.16 : Dionysiaka , a work by Nonnos of Panopolis
- Codex Laurentianus 35.30 : De rerum natura , a poetic work by Lucretius in a copy by Niccolò Niccoli
- Codex Laurentianus 55 : Asklepiodotou philosophou taktika kephalaia by Asklepiodotos (military writer)
- Codex Laurentianus 55.4 : A work on military tactics by Aelianus Tacticus
- Codex Laurentianus plut. 60.3 : Critique of the comedy by Aelius Aristides
- Codex Laurentinus plut. 60.6 : Panathenaikos, speech in praise of Athens by Aelius Aristides
- Codex Laurentianus 68.1 : Contains a work by Horace and the letters of Ignatius . The copy of the original manuscript of the Annales of Cornelius Tacitus (Books 1–6)
- Codex Laurentianus 68.2 : Tacitus Annales Books 11-16; the Historiae des Tacitus.
- Codex Laurentianus 69.22 : A copy of Contra Apionem, "Against Apion", in German on the originality of Judaism by Flavius Josephus
- Codex Laurentianus 70.37 : Callisthenes von Olynth describes the deeds of Alexander in an Alexander novel
- Codex Laurentianus 71.33 : A copy of the Corpus Hermeticum
- Codex Laurentianus 73.20 : Copies by Apicius , Tacitus Germania (f. 45 - 61) and Francesco Aretino's Latin translation of the letters of Pseudo-Diogenes with a poetic homage to Pope Pius II in the preface .
- Codex Laurentianus plut. 74.10 : Contains the works “About Fever” and “Therapeutics”, going back to the doctor Alexander von Tralleis
- Codex Laurentianus 87.3 : Contains a treatise by Plotinus
Other groups of stocks
- Codex Laurentianus : minuscule 183 , a manuscript of the New Testament
- Codex Laurentianus Sancti Marci 304 : A manuscript of the Etymologicum Genuinum
The plutei are recorded in an online database, further online directories are available for San Marco and for the papyri.
Remarks
- ↑ The cover of this manuscript is shown on the Laurenziana's inventory history page. Bibliography on the manuscript from Plutei online
- ↑ meeting u. a. a new Aelian edition, which was created using the relevant manuscript
- ↑ 236 Latin manuscripts in Manus Online
- ^ Papiri letterari della Biblioteca Laurenziana
Web links
- History of the manuscript holdings on the library site
- Home page of the Plutei online catalog . Access to the codicological description, digitized material and literature on the individual manuscripts. (Input sample Plut.60.03, otherwise no result is shown)