[Regulae artificialis memoriae]. Istoria Attile Hunnorum regis

Name:

Ragone, Jacopo

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1471

Description:

Contains the text of a work on strategies of memorization by Jacopo Ragone. Also contains the Istoria [i.e., Historia] Attile Hunnorum regis, written by Juvencus Caelius Calanus in the 12th century.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by J. Rosenthal, 1952.

Relation:

Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/61583

Subject:

Attila, -453 Biography; Attila, -453; Memory -- Early works to 1800; Mnemonics -- Early works to 1800; Mnemonics; Memory; Biography

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); treatises; biographies (literary genre); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

24 leaves : paper; 207 x 147 (136 x 105) mm bound to 208 x 145 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger based on incipit (f. 1r). First work appears to have been composed in 1434 (f. 1r).; Title of second work from caption title (f. 16r).; Inscription on the upper cover also gives the date of 1434 for the first work, as well as the name of the author of the second work. The last two lines of the inscription are difficult to read. This inscription might be contemporary with the manuscript.; First work, incipit and explicit: (f. 1r) Iusso tuo, princeps illustrissime, artificialis memorie regulas ... (f. 15v) Dixi, valle dus [?] et felicitorum princeps collendissime [?].; Second work, incipit and explicit: (f. 16r) Hunni qui et Navares nunc autem hungari ... (f. 23v) mensis dies id con cesare in senatu acceptis vulneribus confessus interit.; Second work, colophon: (f. 23v) Laus deo Amen. L. D. S. scripxit hoc die 29 1471.; Collation: Paper, 24; 1-2¹²; 1-24; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 23 long lines; ruled in lead.; Script: Written in a humanistic cursive script by a single hand.; Binding: 15th-century Italian limp vellum wrapper with original tie extant.; Origin: Written in Italy in 1471 (f. 23v).; Cover is worn in the area around the spine.; Latin.; Related Work: Calanus, Juvencus Coelius. Historia Atticae Hunnorum regis.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 67