[Castelvetro’s commentary on RVF 1]

243x175 mm; IV + 376 + I fols.

paper; sixteenth-century cursive hands; prose texts.

‘Espos[itio]ne d[e]l C[astelvetro] sopra il P[etrarca]’ (fol. 364r)

fols. 364r-365r: Lodovico Castelvetro’s exposition on RVF 1 (‘Espos[itio]ne d[e]l C[astelvetro] sopra il P[etrarca] G Cp’; <inc> Voi ch’ascoltate etc[etera] erano gia sparsi per diuersi luoghi et p[er]sone i sonetti d[e]l P[etrarca] di maniera ch[e] no[n] si sapeua quali fossero isui et q[ua]li imigliori. La onde essendo stato richiesto da certo Sig[no]re di Romagna ch[e] douesse metter in scena q[ue]lli ch[e] a lui pareuano i migliori; <exp> Hora chiamo trasla[zione] manifesta come si vede q[ue]lla nella q[ua]le manifestam[ent]e le parole significano mouimento. et[cetera] seguita adilungo [sic] Sino al Fine d[e]lla prima parte de sonetti o Canzoni di Fran[cesc]o Petrarca. Seconda parte s[onett]o primo et canz[one] p[rim]a poi sonetto ij^o Rotta e l’alta colon[n]a el verde lauro et[cetera]’);
 
fol. 365r-365v: Castelvetro’s notes on Virgil (‘poi seguita M[esser] L[odoui]co Casteuetro’; <inc> Hora no[n] è da lasciar di dir[e] come sia uero ch[e] il proprio p[re]supponga la comunita; <exp> s[opra] simili luoghi. finisco cosi Vs. faccio festa ch[e] io sono stracco).
 
fols. 372r: extract from an unidentified Petrarch’s letter to Giovanni Aretino (‘Franciscus Petrarca Johanni Aretino S[cripsit]’; <inc> Desiderium regularum nostrarum alte tibi insitum cerno, nec me ideo doctum; <exp> Ego certe tuam indolum, studiumque meis uigiliis adiutu[m] iui, si qua sors tulerit gaudebo. haec hactenus. Epistolam tuam etc[etera]), fol. 372v: blank;
 
Other contents:
 
fol. IIr: incomplete summary of the contents of the ms.;
 
fol. IIv: blank;
 
fol. IIIr: indication of the shelfmark of the ms.;
 
fol. IIIv: blank;
 
fol. IVr: title page (‘Prattiche di misurare fabriche etc[etera] | per lo più in Padoua. | Di più un | Discorso sopra la pittura’);
 
fol. IVv: blank;
 
fols. 1r-6v: discourse on the practice of measuring buildings (‘Prattiche di Murari et Prothi’ [sic]);
 
fols. 7r-8r: blank;
 
fol. 8v: notes by [Gian Vincenzo Pinelli];
 
fols. 9r-14v: anonymous discourse on painting (‘Discorso sopra la Pittura’);
 
fol. 15r-15v: blank;
 
fol. 16r: title page (‘Vie militares ad ducendos exercitus contra Turcos’);
 
fol. 16v: pen strokes;
 
fols. 17r-28r: Latin prose work on military roads to be used in the fight against the Turks (‘Prima via superior ex traicta Belgradi p[er] superiore[m] parte[m] Misie et Rhodopem Versus Thracia[m] dirigens’);
 
fols. 28v-29v: blank;
 
fol. 30r-30v: Latin prose work, presumably a continuation of the previous one;
 
fol. 31r: indication of the previous shelfmark of the ms.;
 
fol. 31v: pen strokes;
 
fol. 32r: title page (‘Nuoua maniera di guerreggiare in Ong[heri]a | contra ’l Turco | proposta alla M[aes]ta di Massimil[ian]o ij^o | Imperatore. | da | Domenico Franzi Nap[oleta]no | Modo di rendere inespugnabile Gratz’);
 
fol. 32v: blank;
 
fols. 33r-34r: Domenico Franzi’s dedicatory letter to Charles II, Archduke of Austria (‘Al serenissimo Principe Carlo Arciduca d’Austria Duca di Borgogna, Stiria, Carinthia Carniola et Vittemberga Conte di Tirolo, et Goritia’);
 
fol. 34v: blank;
 
fols. 35r-45r: Domenico Franzi’s prose work on a new way to fight against Turks;
 
fol. 45v-46v: blank;
 
fols. 47r-50v: prose work on rendering Graz immune to attack;
 
fol. 51r-51v: blank;
 
fols. 52r-53v: continuation of the previous writing;
 
fols. 54r-65v: draft of Domenico Franzi’s prose work on a new way to fight against Turks;
 
fol. 66r-66¹v: blank;
 
fol. 67r: title page: ‘Variorum Secreta varia chymica medica, et alia’;
 
fol. 67v: blank;
 
fols. 68r-103v: Latin prose work on medicine and chemistry;
 
fol. 103¹r-103¹v: writing on remedies for stomach pain;
 
fol. 103¹r-103¹v: Latin letter (dated 1585) followed by a writing on purgation techniques with nettle;
 
fol. 104r: title page: Chimica ††† experimenta anni 1553;
 
fol. 104v-105r: writing on chemical experiments;
 
fol. 109v: blank;
 
fol. 110r: brief Latin prose work;
 
fols. 110v-117v: blank;
 
fol. 118r: title page: Capovacci Nonnulla ad Artem Medicam spectantia;
 
fols. 118v-119r: blank;
 
fol. 119v: pen strokes;
 
fols. 120r-141v: Latin prose work on medical treatments and their methods of administration (‘Medicinalia De dosibus Caputuaccj’);
 
fols. 142r-143v: blank;
 
fol. 144r: indication of the previous shelfmark of the ms.;
 
fol. 144v: pen strokes;
 
fols. 145r-150v: Pinelli’s observations on a Greek Botany book (‘Ex Herbario Graeco manuscript pictisque plantis illustrato illustris[simi] Viri Vincentij Pinelli, Obseruationes quartu[m]’);
 
fols. 151r-152r: Pinelli’s notes on plants and seeds (‘Plantae depictae ex Codice M. S.’);
 
fol. 152v: blank;
 
fol. 153r: few Latin prose lines;
 
fol. 153v: blank;
 
fol. 154r: indication of the previous shelfmark of the ms.;
 
fols. 154v-155r: blank;
 
fol. 155v: pen strokes;
 
fol. 156r: title page (‘INDEX THEOPHRASTI de hystoria plantarum’);
 
fols. 156v-157v: blank;
 
fols. 158r-308v: alphabetical index of Theophrastus’s De historia plantarum (‘Index in libros de hist[ori]a et causis Plantas theophr[asti]’);
 
fol. 309r-309v: blank;
 
fol. 310r: indication of the previous shelfmark of the ms.;
 
fol. 310v: blank;
 
fol. 311r: title page (‘alcuni luoghi di Giulio Camillo’);
 
fol. 311v: blank;
 
fols. 312r-321r: quotation of bodily metaphors used by Giulio Camillo;
 
fols. 321v-322v: blank;
 
fols 323r: title page: (‘luoghi hauuti dal Ziletti. credo siano cose di Giulio Camillo ò simili’);
 
fol. 323v: blank;
 
fols. 324r-337v: list of Latin words and expressions, presumably from Camillo’s works;
 
fols. 338r-342v: blank;
 
fol. 343r: title page (‘Erricij Puteani de musjca opuscola an[no] 1599’);
 
fol. 343v: blank;
 
fols. 344r-349v: Erycius Puteanus’s booklet on music theory in the form of a dialogue (‘MODVLATAE LECTIONIS NOVA ET COMPENDIARIA DIRECTIO, SINE NOTARVM PERMVTATIONE, EX MODVLATA PALLADE contracta’);
 
fol. 350r-350v: blank;
 
fol. 351r: summary of the content of the remaining fols. of the ms.;
 
fol. 351v: pen strokes;
 
fols. 352r-353v: [Pinelli’s] notes on ancient jurists;
 
fols. 354r-355v: blank;
 
fols. 356r-357r: [Pinelli’s] observations on political sententiae with Greek quotations and metrical annotations;
 
fol. 357v: blank;
 
fol. 358r-358v: continuation of the previous writing;
 
fol. 359r: [Pinelli’s] scattered metrical annotations;
 
fol. 359v: blank;
 
fol. 360r-363r: Latin prose writing on the path of the comet in 1556 (‘De cursu Comete etc[etera]’);
 
fol. 366r: prose writing on the isogonio;
 
fol. 366v: blank;
 
fol. 367r: title page (‘Caput de epiglottide’);
 
fol. 367r: blank;
 
fols. 368r-370r: prose writing on epiglottis (‘De Epiglottide’);
 
fol. 370v: blank;
 
fols. 371r: Latin annotation on metrics;
 
fol. 371v: blank;
 
fol. 373r-374v: notes on Livy;
 
fol. 375r-375v: list and description of Greek medals (‘Nota di medaglie greche’).