Poggio Manuscript
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0103 MS LAT 13 |
Held at | : University College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll › |
Full title | : Poggio Manuscript |
Date(s) | : 15th century |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 1 volume containing 36 leaves |
Name of creator(s) | : Unknown |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini: born in Terranuova, Tuscany, Italy, 1380; humanist and calligrapher, who rediscovered classical Latin manuscripts in European monastic libraries; died in Florence, 1459. This manuscript may have been written in Germany.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript volume, 15th century, containing Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini's 'Facetiae', a collection of humorous tales, mostly anti-clerical in content.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
Latin
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
Finding aids:
Dorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); N R Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, i (London and Oxford, 1969); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
Archival Information
Archival history:
According to a 17th-century list on folio 1, this was the first item of a larger manuscript. Formerly part of the Mocatta Library.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented to University College London by the Jewish Historical Society in 1904.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Sep 2001
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