General Information
Title
Commentary on Matthew
Shelfmarks
BAV, Vat.lat.3044
Page/Folio Reference
f. iiv
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
Italy
Date of Origin
14C
Script, Hands
The text was written by one scribe in a late fourteenth-century, Italian Gothic cursiva.
Original Condition
Page Height
210 mm
Page Width
at least 140 mm
Height of Written Area
175 mm
Width of Written Area
at least 110 mm
Number of Columns
2
Width of Columns
53 mm
Number of Lines
38
Line Height
5 mm
More about the Condition
The text of this fragment appears only on the verso of this folio.
Current Condition
Dimensions
210 x 140 mm
More about the Current Condition
Overall, the fragment is in good condition. Part of the "b" column falls into the gutter of the inner margin and has been included in the binding. The stub of the other half of this bifolium can be seen before f. 1r.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
The fragment evinces no decoration, but space was left for a two-line first initial at the bottom of the 'a' column.
Content
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Content Item
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Persons
Anonymus
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Text Language
Latin
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Title
Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
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Content Description
This anonymous text appears to be from a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew as the underlined lemma, missing its decorated first initial, at the bottom of the 'a' column indicates (cf. Mt. 4:18).
Host Volume
Title
Radulphus Brito, Quaestiones super totam Artem veterem Aristotelis [incomplete]: Quaestiones super Porphyrium, ff. 1r-42r; Quaestiones super librum Praedicatorum, ff. 42v-78v; Quaestiones super librum Perihermeneias, ff. 79r-106r.
Date of Origin/Publication
mid 15C; watermarks present in the paper of this manuscript are of a threefold mountain surrounded by a circle (cf. Briquet 137 or 139), providing strong corroborating evidence for this date.
Place of Origin/Publication
Italy (possibly Rome or Vicenza). In the upper margin of this fragment is written "frater Franciscus 1467" in the autograph of Francesco della Rovere (Pope Sixtus IV, 1471-1484), when he was Minister General of the Franciscan Order. There is another autograph note by Francesco (f. 110v), dated in the same year, granting the use of this book to his nephew, the Franciscan "Petrus de Ruvere de Saona" (Pietro Riario), his nephew. It would seem then that this manuscript belonged originally to the Franciscans before its entry into the Vatican Library, probably by means of Sixtus IV himself. The presence of the manuscript is attested in the Vatican Library by 1550 with the shelfmark 1726.
Shelfmark
Vat.lat.3044
Conditions of Deposit
good condition, consultable
Bibliography
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Paola Scarcia Piacentini, "Ricerche sugli antichi inventari della Biblioteca Vaticana: I codici di lavoro di Sisto IV," in Un Pontificato ed una città : Sisto IV (1471-1484). Atti del convegno, Roma, 3-7 dicembre 1984, a cura di Massimo Miglio et al. (Littera antiqua 5), Città del Vaticano 1986, 168.
