Martianus Capella: De nuptiis philologiae et Mercurii libri II

DATA SHEET

Shelfmark: MS 4054.
Country: Italy
City: Venice
Keeper location: Biblioteca Nazionale di San Marci
Digitized corvina: at the keeper location
Author: Martianus Capella (5th c.); C. Chirius Fortunatus (4–5th c.); Augustine of Hippo (354–430); Alain de Lille (c. 1128–1202/1203); Albaldus; Victor of Aquitaine (5th c.)
Content: Martianus Capella: De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii; C. Chirius Fortunatus: Ars rhetorica; Augustine of Hippo: De rhetorica; Alain de Lille: De planctu naturae; Albaldus: De minutiis; Victor of Aquitaine: Opusculum de ponderibus et minutiis
Writing medium: parchment
Number of sheets: II + 266
Sheet size: 368 × 258 mm
Date of writing: between 1485–1490
Scriptor: Alessandro di Bartolomeo di Lodovico da Verrazzano (1453–after 1508)
Illuminator: Attavante degli Attavanti (1452–1517/1525) and his workshop
Place of illumination: Florence
Date of illumination: between 1485–1490
Crest: the coats-of-arms were scraped off after the death of Matthias Corvinus
Possessor, provenience: the manuscript was copied for Matthias Corvinus (King of Hungary 1458–1490, King of the Bohemia 1469–1490), but it never left Florence because of the death of the monarch on 6 April 1490, and was purchased by Gioachino Torriano (c. 1416–1500), a general of the Dominican Order, who was also prior of the Dominican convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, and the volume was transferred to its library; the Council of Ten decreed in September 1789 that the most valuable part of the Santi Giovanni e Paolo library, including this corvina, should be transferred to the library of St Mark's Basilica for safekeeping
Binding: late 18th or early 19th century leather binding (Biblioteca Marciana)
Language of corvina: Latin
Condition: some full-page miniatures (fol. 24. v., 66. v., 89. v., 115. v.) and framed title pages (fol. 67. r., 90. r., 91. r., 131. r., 246. r.) of the manuscript were cut out and stolen, but subsequently glued back together