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Poggio Manuscript

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS LAT 13

Held at: University College London

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 AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

Physical characteristics:

Paper manuscript bound in half calf and marble boards. One hand. Spaces left for initials not filled in. 28cm.

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

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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.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.