Beinecke MS 683

Traversari, Ambrogio (Ambrogio Camaldolese; 1386-1439).  Translations of
Basil and John Chrysostom.

Latin.  Florence, ca. 1450.

1.  pp. 1-2  Domino venerabili atque omni curitatis officio suscipiendo
patri Gabrieli. Ambrosius Prolixum librum sanctii basilii cesariensis
episcopi viri...
	Ambrogio Traversari.  Prologue [Printed in E. Martene and U. Durand,
	eds., Veterum Scriptorum et Monumentorum Historicorum, Dogmaticorum,
	Moralium, vol. III (Paris: Montalant, 1724), col. 700-701].

2.  pp. 3-151  Basilii de bono virginitatis.  Cum plurimi ex his qui
immortalum sponsum familiaris ambiunt: quosquem ad considerationem vere
honsetatis celestis vulneravit amor.
	Basil the Great.  De bono virginitatis sive De vera virginitatis
	integritate.  Translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari in 1431
	[PG 30: 669-810].

3.  pp. 152-236  [Prologue:] Domino amantissimo ac merito venerabili patri
matheo Ambrosius. Exegisti a me vire tuo senex optime atque sua vissime ut
exercitii  causa aliquid sacrarum litterarum ex greco converterem.  [ch. 1,
p. 155:] Cum templum illud pervetustum et per celebre quod iherosolimis
fuerat multis annis eversum atque solo adequatum.  Longissima ex captivitate
redeuntes erigere atque instaurare hebrei cuperent.
	John Chrysostom.  Epistola ad Stagirium adversus vituperatores
	vitae monasticae libri I et II.  Translated into Latin by Ambrogio
	Traversari in 1420 [PG 47: 319-348; Preface printed in Martene and
	Durand, vol. III, col. 697-698].


Parchment.  ff. i+118, 185 x 120 (114 x 71) mm.  One column, 25 lines. 
Single vertical bounding lines in pale red ink.  Ruled in lead.

I^^8, II^^12, III^^8, IV^^10+3, V^^8, VI^^10, VII^^8+1, VIII^^12, IX^^8+3,
X^^8, XI^^8+2, XII^^8.  

Written in late gothic bookhand.

Elaborate initial and border on f. 2r, attributed to Giovanni d'Antonio
Varnucci (1416-1457) by Albinia De la Mare, of vinework colored in blue,
red, green, pink, and burnished gold; contains the coat of arms of the Barbo
family.  Other initials in blue.  

Binding: 19th/20th century blind stamped leather.

Provenance:  Barbi coat of arms on p. 3.

Bibliography: Robert G. Babcock and Mark L. Sosower, Learning from the
Greeks: An Exhibition Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of the
Founding of the Aldine Press (New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, 1994), p. 29, no. 33.

Albert Derolez