Laurentianus plut. 58.1 – Fr

Previous descriptions: Bandini (1764–1770 vol. 2, 438–9)

Reproductions: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Family: e

Siglum: Fr

Shelfmark: Laurentianus plut. 58.1

Date: Middle of the 15th century

Format: paper, 305×235 mm, I+114 ff.

Material: the manuscript is in a good state of preservation.

Binding: –

Watermarks: all over the manuscript there is a watermark, a dragon, which I could not find in repertories; a different one, a decorated shield with a decoration inside, is found in the section where the folios have been replaced.

Scribes: A: ff. 1r–12v, Gian Pietro da LuccaGian Pietro da Lucca (see Martinelli Tempesta, Speranzi 2018, 206); B: ff. 13r–16v, 68r–113v; C: ff. 17r–27v and partly 28 are later replacements made in the 16th century (before 1571) by Francesco ZanettiFrancesco Zanetti (see Speranzi 2015, 288 n. 2); D: ff. 28r–45r l.26; E: ff. 45r l.26–67v; F: notes on ff. 98r, 99v, 100v, Andronicus CallistusAndronicus Callistus (RGK I 18 = II 25 = III 31), see Orlandi (2023, 27–28, 338).

Annotations: none.

1 (1r–113v) Pollux, Onomasticon. No title. Incipit: ὦ παῖ πατρὸς ἀγαθοῦ (1.1). Explicit: τὰ δὲ πράγματα πόνος (1.157). Contains all the books, but in a confused order: 1 (ff. 1r‒27v, but 17r–27v are a later replacement; ff. 1r–16v contain 1.1–1.133 τὰ μέρη τῆς ἀσπίδος, replacement folios 1.133 ὀμφαλὸς καὶ μεσομφάλιον – 1.254 ἐδώδιμοι), 6 (ff. 28r–37r), 7 (ff. 37r–43v); 8 (ff. 43v–51v); 9 (ff. 51v–58v); 10 (ff. 58v–67v, finishes at 10.139 φλεβῶν ἡ), 1 (ff. 68r–75r; begins with 1.151 τὰ δὲ ἐναντία ἥμεροι, ends at 1.254 ἐδώδιμοι), 2 (ff. 75r–90v), 3 (ff. 90v–97r), 4 (ff. 97r–106r), 5 (ff. 106r–111r at 5.75 ὁ Καρπάθιος τὸν λαγών), 1 (ff. 112r–113v, starting at 1.133 ὀμφαλὸς καὶ μεσομφάλιον and ending at 1.157 τὰ δὲ πράγματα πόνος).

The manuscript was most probably written in the 1430s or 1440s in the circle of Vittorino da FeltreVittorino da Feltre, whose pupil Gian Pietro da Lucca was. The marginal notes written by Andronicus Callistus probably date from the period between 1450 and 1455 he spent in Ferrara between 1450 and 1455, where several manuscripts written by Gian Pietro da Lucca were kept for a time (see Orlandi 2023, 28). Fr was then among the manuscripts that GoroGoro (prior of S. Croce sull’Arno), prior of ‘Santa Croce sull’Arno’ and camerarius of the Bishop of Lucca, sent to Lorenzo de’ MediciLorenzo de’ Medici in 1477 or 1478 (see Speranzi 2005, 474; Gentile 1994, 116–7), so the codex entered the Medici’s private library.