Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Marciana
The collection of the Marciana Library contains 4,639 manuscripts and 13,117 manuscript volumes.[1] Its historical nucleus is the private collection of Cardinal Bessarion, which was donated to the Republic of Venice in 1468.
Manuscripts
Some significant manuscripts in the collection include:
Greek
- Gr. Z. 196 (=743): commentary by Olympiodorus on Plato's Gorgias and Alcibiades (ninth century) on-line
- Gr. Z. 228 (=406): includes Books I and II of Peri Psychēs by Aristotle with commentary by Simplicius of Cilicia and Sophonias and paraphrases by Themistius together with commentary by Pseudo-Diadochus on Plato's Timaeus, commentary by Simplicius of Cilicia on Aristotle's Peri Ouranoû, commentary by Ammonius Hermiae’s on Plato’s Phaedrus, and commentary by Proclus on Plato’s Parmenides. (fourteenth century) on-line
- Gr. Z. 313 (=690): Mathematiké sýntaxis by Ptolemy (tenth century)
- Gr. Z. 388 (=333): Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis by Ptolemy with 27 map projections, commissioned by Bessarion and attributed to John Rhosos (fifteenth century)[2]
- Gr. Z. 395 (=921): Romaiki istoria by Cassius Dio, the oldest manuscript containing Books XLIV, 35, 4–LX, 28, 3 (ninth century)
- Gr. Z. 447 (=820): Deipnosophistaí by Athenaeus of Naucratis, the oldest surviving and most complete extant text (tenth century) on-line
- Gr. Z. 453 (=821): "Homerus Venetus B" (eleventh century) on-line
- Gr. Z. 454 (=822): "Homerus Venetus A", text of Homer's Iliás epic with annotations, glosses, and commentaries (tenth century)[3] on-line
- Gr. Z. 460 (=330): commentary on Homer's Odýsseia by Eustathius of Thessalonica, autograph copy (twelfth century)
- Gr. Z. 479 (=881): Cynegetica by Oppian of Apamea and Vita Oppiani by Constantine Manasses, the oldest illustrated version with 150 miniatures (eleventh century)[4]
- Gr. Z. 481 (=863): Anthologia Planudea, autograph copy of Greek epigrams by Maximus Planudes (1299–1301)[5] on-line
Italian
- It. VIII, 2 (=2796): De architectura by Antonio Averulino, commissioned for Matthias Corvinus and illustrated with 152 designs (fifteenth century)[6] on-line
- It. IX, 276 (=6902): La Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri, illuminated with 170 miniatures (fourteenth century)[7] on-line
Latin
- Lat. Z. 549 (=1597): "Codex Cumanicus", handbook of the Cuman language for missionaries with glossaries and a collection of religious texts, linguistic data, and folkloric materials (fourteenth century)[8] on-line
- Lat. I, 99 (=2138): "Breviarium Grimani", Breviary illuminated by the Flemish miniaturists Gerard Horenbout and Alexander and Simon Bening, once belonging to Cardinal Domenico Grimani (c. 1515–1520)[9] on-line
- Lat. I, 103 (=11925): "Evangelistarium Grimani", Gospel illuminated by Benedetto Bordone and Giulio Clovio for Cardinal Marino Grimani (1528)[10] on-line
- Lat. VI, 86 (=2593): De remediis by Francesco Petrarch and De senectute by Cicero (fourteenth century)[11]
- Lat. VI, 254 (=2976): Historia naturalis by Pliny the Elder, illuminated copy commissioned by Pico della Mirandola (1481)[12]
- Lat. XII, 68 (=4519): De bello punico by Silius Italicus, illuminated by Zanobi Strozzi and Francesco Pesellino (fifteenth century)[13] on-line
- Lat. XIV, 35 (=4054): De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii by Martianus Capella, illuminated by Attavante degli Attavanti for Matthias Corvinus (fifteenth century)[14] on-line
Oriental languages
- Or. 90 (= 57): İskendernâme by Taceddin İbrahim bin Hizir Ahmedî, illuminated Ottoman version of the Alexander Romance (fifteenth century)[15]
- Plutarch, Ēthika
Gr. Z. 248 (=328), fol. 5r. - Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum)
Gr. Z. 263 (=1025), fol. 42r. - Ptolemy, Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis
Gr. Z. 388 (=333), fol. 6v. - Athenaeus, Deipnosophistaí
Gr. Z. 447 (=820), fol. 1r. - "Homerus Venetus A"
Gr. Z. 454 (=822), fol. 24r. - Hero of Alexandria, Pneumatica
Gr. Z. 516 (=904), fol. 172v. - Proclus, Theologia Platonica
Gr. Z. 547 (=411), fol. 1r. - Dante, Divina Commedia
It. IX, 276 (=6902), fol. 53v. - Pseudo-Aristotle, Liber de causis
Lat. Z. 288 (=913), fol. 2r. - Breviarum Grimani
Lat. I, 99 (=2138), fol. 286v. - Asclepius (Corpus Hermeticum)
Lat. VI, 81 (= 3036), fol. 131v. - Silius Italicus, De bello punico
Lat. XII, 68 (=4519), fol. 3r.
Biblical manuscripts
Old Testament
- Gr. Z. 1 (=320): Old Testament (beginning with the Book of Job), companion to the Vatican codice Vat. Gr. 2106 (eighth century) on-line
- Gr. Z. 17 (=421): "Psalmi cum catena", the 150 Psalms with commentary and illustrations, (tenth-early eleventh century) on-line
- Gr. Z. 538 (=540): "Catena in Job", text of the Book of Job with catena and 30 miniatures (905)
New Testament
- Uncial 030
- Uncial 0243
- Minuscule 205
- Minuscule 207
- Minuscule 208
- Minuscule 209
- Minuscule 210
- Minuscule 211
- Minuscule 212
- Minuscule 213
- Minuscule 214
- Minuscule 215
- Minuscule 217
- Minuscule 354
- Minuscule 355
- Minuscule 357
- Minuscule 405
- Minuscule 406
- Minuscule 407
- Minuscule 408
- Minuscule 409
- Minuscule 410
- Minuscule 411
- Minuscule 412
- Minuscule 413
- Minuscule 414
- Minuscule 415
- Minuscule 416
- Minuscule 417
- Minuscule 418
- Minuscule 419
- Minuscule 599
- Minuscule 891
- Minuscule 893
- Lectionary 107
- Lectionary 108
- Lectionary 109
- Lectionary 110
- Lectionary 139
- Lectionary 140
- Lectionary 141
- Lectionary 142
- Lectionary 264
- Lectionary 265
- Lectionary 266
- Lectionary 267
- Lectionary 268
- Lectionary 269
Cartography
- Fra Mauro map
- It. Z. 76 (=4783): "Bianco world map", nautical atlas by Andrea Bianco with eight portolan charts and two world maps (1436) on-line
- It. VI, 213 (=5982): "Corbitis Atlas" (early fifteenth century) on-line
Notes
- https://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/la-biblioteca/il-patrimonio/patrimonio-librario. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 122. For a description of the codex, see the exhibition catalog Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013), pp. 17–19, ISBN 0642278091.
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 62
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 64
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 82
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 148
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 115
- For a discussion, see The Codex Cumanicus in Peter B. Golden, ed.,Studies on the peoples and cultures of the Eurasian steppes (Bucharest: Academiei Române, 2011), pp. 333–366, ISBN 9732721529.
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 192
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 196
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 102
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 144
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 162
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 166
- Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 180
References
- Labowsky, Lotte, Bessarion's Library and the Biblioteca Marciana, Six Early Inventories (Rome: Storia e Letteratura, 1979) ISBN 9788884985699
- Raines, Dorit, 'Book Museum or Scholarly Library? The ‘Libreria di San Marco’ in a Republican Context', Ateneo veneto, CXCVII, terza serie, 9/II (2010), 31–50 (ISSN 0004-6558)
- Rapp, Claudia, 'Bessarion of Nicaea', in Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, ed., The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 125–126 ISBN 0674072278
- Zanetti, Antonio Maria, ed., Græca D. Marci Bibliotheca codicum manu scriptorum per titulos digesta (Venetiis: Casparis Ghirardi & Simonem Occhi, 1740)
- Zanetti, Antonio Maria, ed., Latina et italica D. Marci Bibliotheca codicum manu scriptorum per titulos digesta (Venetiis: Casparis Ghirardi & Simonem Occhi, 1741)
- Zorzi, Marino, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia (Firenze: Nardini, 1988) ISBN 8840410031
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