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