A Recently Discovered Autograph by Philippus de Diversis from 1455: Epistles of St Jerome, St Augustine and others

Opis

Novotkriveni autograf Filipa de Diversi, kodeks u koji je prepisivao poslanice Sv. Jeronima, Sv. Augustina i drugih, donosi važne nove biografske i bibliografske podatke o njemu. Saznajemo da je 1455. godine još bio živ i boravio u Veneciji. Obiman kodeks (278 folija) sačuvan je u knjižnici earla od Leicestera, Holkham Hall u Engleskoj. Članak donosi popis svih poslanica prepisanih u kodeks, s bibliografskim podacima.A recently discovered autograph by Philippus de Diversis (Filippo de Diversi), codex in which he copied the epistles of St Jerome, St Augustine and others, casts new light upon his life and work. Until now little has been known about Diversi’s life after 1444, yet at this moment we know for certain that in 1455 he was still living in Venice. He was no longer a teacher but worked as a magistrate in Padua. Then, at a fairly advanced age, he copied selected epistles of the church fathers ‘for his own use’, as he describes in the closing part of the text. Under the title Extracts from s. Hieronymus and others, 1455. Holkham Ms. 131. 81 extracts with illuminated borders and initials. Written by Philippus de Diversis de Quartigianis, of Lucca, at Venice, the voluminous text (278 folios) is kept at the rich library of the Earl of Leicester in Holkham Hall in England. The codex contains eighty-one epistles: fifty-one written by St Jerome, seventeen by St Augustine, two by Origen (in Jerome’s translation) and Damascenus, and one by Volusius, Marcellinus, Longinus, Epiphan