Treatises by Petrus Paulus Vergerius the elder, Guarino Veronese and Magnus Basilius

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0096 MS 288
Held at	: Senate House Library, University of London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections ›
Full title	: Treatises by Petrus Paulus Vergerius the elder, Guarino Veronese and Magnus Basilius
Date(s)	: c1450-1500
Level of description	: Fonds
Extent	: 112 leaves, octavo, 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Three treatises bound in one volume; the title pages, colophons and a few initials are illuminated. The verso of the penultimate leaf has been used for a notarial instrument dated 28 August 1571. The last leaf [blank?] is missing and has been replaced by a leaf from another MS. ff [1-51]: Petri Pauli [Vergerii] Iustinopolitani ad Ubertinum Karrariensem De ingenuis moribus ac liberalibus adolescentiae studiis liber; ff 52-3: Ode from Vergerius to Ubertinus in 15 stanzas beginning "Kariget nobis pater atque princeps"; ff 54- Guarini Ver[onensis] ad Angelum Corbinellum Florentinum in Plutarchi De liberis educandis translationem de graeco incip[it] prohoemium; ff 89- Magni Basilii De modostudendi poetis et oratori[b]us ex graeco in latinum versum ab clarissimo oratore Leonardo [Aretino] lib[er]. Usually known as "De liberalibus studiis et ingenuis moribus".

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
Latin

System of arrangement:

f. 34 has been cut out and mistakenly tipped in between f. 35 and 36.

Conditions governing access:

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Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original, which must be assessed by a conservator. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Finding aids:

N.R. Ker, Medieval MSS. in British Libraries: I, London (1969), pp. 366-7.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Originally in the Phillipps collection

Immediate source of acquisition:

See Archival History

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by K Attar.

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:
25 July 2002