By RODNEY P. ROBINSON

(From Classical Philology XVI (1921) pp.251-255)

The Florentine monk, Ambrogio Traversari, in a letter to Niccolò Niccoli dated July 8, 1431, mentions an inventory of manuscripts which the latter had given to the cardinals Giuliano Cesarini and Niccolò Albergati, with the request that they search for the volumes listed therein in their travels through Germany and France respectively.¹ What is apparently a copy of this inventory has in recent years come to light, appended to a manuscript containing some philosophical works of Cicero. In 1913 the inventory was published in its entirety in Catalog XII (pp. 14-16, MS 10) of the Florentine book-dealers, T. de Marinis & Co., at the end of their description of the Cicero manuscript. The attention of the philological world was first brought to the matter by E. Jacobs, Wochenschr. f. klass. Philol., 1913, 701-2.²    R. Sabbadini, Storia e critica di testi latini, Catania, 1914, has republished the text of the de Marinis catalogue in full.

The above-mentioned manuscript is now in New York in the private library of Mr. Pierpont Morgan. Through the generosity of the Department of the Classics of the University of Illinois and the courtesy of Miss Ada Thurston of the Morgan library, photographs of the pages containing the inventory were secured for my use in the preparation of my Doctor's dissertation.³  A collation of the text in the de Marinis catalogue with the manuscript reveals about twenty typographical errors, with a larger number of inaccuracies. Since this text has hitherto been the only one available for the study of this most valuable document, an accurate copy made directly from the photographs of the manuscript is herewith submitted.

The more serious errors in the de Marinis text are as follows: ⁴

l. 3, in latus without mention of the fact that the letter s is written above the line, a circumstance which readily explains the error in the manuscript for in lacu;
l. 6, at alpibus for ab alpibus;
l. 17, instingent for instigent;
l. 27, antiquatus for antiquitus;
ll. 60-62, carthaginensis Tertulliani omitted;
l. 63, aduersus indacos for aduersus mdacos (a corruption of Aduersus Iudaeos);
l. 69, Deo octo for De octo;
l. 119, inuiorem, for iuniorem;
ll. 122-23 omitted;
l. 126, Ad C. Pansam for Ad Pansam;
l. 128, decades for decados;
l. 129, uetustissima for uetustissimis;
l. 138, Extat non integre printed as though in body of inventory.

As the compendia are the usual ones, I have not attempted to reproduce them. In the manuscript ae appears as the e caudata.

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINATI

Notes

As usual, anything in red is by R.Pearse.  I have renumbered the footnotes and moved them here (since without pages they would make no sense) but otherwise left them alone.  The original page number and note number are given.   In the main text I've tried to reproduce the format of the printed version.   The bold and italics in the Latin are mine, for ease of spotting the monasteries mentioned and Niccolo's comments.

1. p.251 n.1. Traversarii epistulae ed. Petrus Cannetus, VIII, 2, p. 353; also in Sabbadini, Storia e critica p. 2: . . . . Quod indicem dederis voluminum inquirendorum cum luliano nostro cardinali S. Angeli tum cardinali S. Crucis, Germaniam omnem omnemque Galliam diverso itinere peragraturis, fecisti tu studiose el ingenio No digne . . . . .

2. p.251 n.2. See also A. Gudeman, ibid., 1913, 929-33; W. Aly, Rhein. Mus., LXVIII, 636-37.

3. p.251 n.3. De fragmenti Suetoniani de grammaticis el rhetoribus codicum nexu et fide, to be published in the "University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature."

4. p.252 n.1.     The numbering of the lines is that of the reproduction here given.
5. p.252 n.2.     s is added above the line.
6. p.252 n.3.     Second i is expunctuated.
7. p.253 n.1.    b is expunctuated.
8. p.253 n.2.    The letters ii are added above the line.
9. p.253 n.3.    The words de Astrologia are expunctuated.
10. p.253 n.4.    s is expunctuated and x written above.
11. p.254 n.1. Changed into sterquilinio.
12. p.254 n.2. Corrected to hortensii.
13. p.254 n.3.  i expunctuated.
14. p. 255 n.1. Corrected from imperitiam.
15. p. 255 n.2 In right margin of manuscript.

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