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I - Autographs
F.L. 6177
F.L. 7249
F.L. 7459
F.L. 7462
F.L. 7463
F.L. 7464
F.L. 7465
F.L. 7466
F.L. 7467
F.L. 7468
F.L. 7471
F.L. 7472
F.L. 7472 A
F.L. 7473
S.P. 115/32
S.P. 116/33
S.P. 117/34
Camb. Ff. V. 42
Camb. Ff. V. 43
Camb. Ff. V. 44
Esc. J. III. 31
Cortes 2787
Molf. 5-7 H 15
Cors. 35 E 22
Soc. Mess. di Storia Patria 1
Fi Naz., Magl. Cl. XIV. 39
Parm. Pal. 1023, fasc. 6
Barb. Lat. 2158, cc. 143r-146v
ARSI, Ital. 137, c. 95
II - Non-autographs et Copies
Vat. lat. 3131
Catania, Bibl. Univ., U.52
F.L. 7251
F.L. 17859
Nap. I. E. 56
Lucca, Bibl. Gov., ms. 2080
Esc. &.IV.22, cc. 185r-185v
Hamburg, Cod. Math. 483 (Quarto)
Erl. 831 (già 970)
Erl. 832 (già 909)
Erl. 833 (già 986)
ME Univ., F.V. 175, cc. 838r-844v, 782r-790r
Bodl. 6556 (Savile 9), cc. 10r-28r APUG, Fondo Curia 2052
III - Lost
Villacanense
Palermo (già nella Biblioteca dei Gesuiti)
Bibl. Innocenzo Roccaforte
Bibl. Arenaprimo

Editions
Introduction
1. Euclides
2. Sphaerica et parva astronomia
3. Arithmetica et algebra
4. Archimedes
5. Conica
6. Musica
7. Optica
8. Cosmographia et astronomica quaedam
9. Mechanicae Artes
10. Epistulae

Instrumenta Maurolyciana
Introduzione
1. Catalogi
2. Bibliographica
3. Biographica
4. Iconographica
   
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Manuscripts of Francesco Maurolico
Topographic and Descriptive Catalogue

April 17, 2001


Catalogue by
Rosario Moscheo


Introduction

1  Foreword

The following catalogue is mainly based on microfilms and on direct inspection and contains, partitioned into two disjoint sections, all of Maurolico's autographs known to me as well as those manuscripts that, albeit not autographs, show anyway an `ancient' connection with some of Maurolico's materials. The minute description of each codex (format, dimensions, number of leaves, binding, contents, `incipit' and `explicit' of each single text) is supplemented both by some data concerning the so-called `external' history, and by a careful collation with printed works by Maurolico.

The above mentioned collation, whose original goal was to assess the importance of the material come to us in manuscript form, has allowed me to discover the unpublished parts of them and to find variant readings with respect to edited works. Most of such texts, mainly prefaces, forewords, and short tracts of various nature, are here transcribed and published for the first time. A better light is thereby thrown on the interrelationships between what constitutes, albeit in rough outline, Maurolico's work in progress and what (be it printed or not) looks as an accomplished work. Maurolico's use of accurately dating each single writing of his, or even successive elaborations of it, has permitted compiling a very detailed chronology of the whole of his works.

A third section of the catalogue collects the available data about all those manuscripts, both copies and autographs, get lost or at least nowadays not to be found. Such data can be used to understand or to fill up the `holes' in Maurolico's huge production. Even if it is impossible to have such materials at our disposal, the data about them are of some use in clarifying several aspects of Maurolico's biography and works, and in some cases may provide useful pieces of information about the chronology of his writings.

The manuscripts are presented, within the first two sections, in order of importance, as far as their number is concerned, of the single funds of Maurolico's manuscripts available in the various libraries. Within each fund the order of the press-mark is followed. The richest fund is that of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, a subset of the so-called `Fonds Latin', briefly described in Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Regiae, pars III, tomus IV, Parigi, 1744, pp. 210, 331, 362-364; for the other manuscripts I refer to the general information provided at the beginning of each description.

In describing each single item of the first section (where the autographs are located) I tried to follow Maurolico's original criteria of graphical formatting (centering of the titles and of the colophones; use of peculiar shorthands, astrological symbols, etc.). It is important to point out the value of such a choice as a general criterion, beside the graphological ones, of ascription to Maurolico's hand (or even to his style) of other, possibly lacking any epigraph or even the whole beginning, manuscripts containing works or `lucubrationes' of his that could be found in the future. As far as punctuation, use of upper-case letters, etc. are concerned, modern philological criteria have been used in the transcriptions here inserted of autograph texts and of copied texts, with the exception of the cases in which a more faithful presentation of the text suggested different criteria (in the descriptions of any single codex the asterisk * denotes unnumbered leaves).

2  Shorthands and Sigla Employed

ARSI Roma, Archivio Romano della Compagnia di Gesù
Barb. lal Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, mss. Barberiniani Latini
Bodl. Oxford, Bodleian Library
Camb. Cambridge University Library
Colb. codex Colbertinus
Cors. Roma, Biblioleca Corsiniana
Cortes ms. del fondo `Cortes' della Biblioteca della Real Academia de Historia di Madrid
CT Univ. Catania, Biblioteca Universitaria
Erl. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek
Esc. Escorial, Biblioteca Real de S. Lorenço
FI Naz. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
F.L. mss. del `Fonds Latin' della Bibl. Nat. di Parigi
Hamb. Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Lu. Gov. Lucca, Biblioteca Governativa
MF, Univ. Messina, Biblioteca Regionale Universitaria
ME Soc. Messina, Biblioteca della Società Messinese di Storia Patria
Molf. Molfetta (Bari), Biblioteca del Seminario Vescovile
NA Naz. Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale "Vittorio Emanuele II"
Par. Nat. Parigi, Bibliothèque Nationale
PR Pal. Parma, Biblioteca Palatina
Roma Naz. Roma, Biblioteca Nationale "Vittorio Emanuele II"
S.P. mss. del fondo `San Pantaleo' della Bibl. Naz. "Vittorio Emanuele II" di Roma
Vat. Lat. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, mss. Vaticani Latini

3  Manuscripts

3.1  Autographs

1. F.L. 6177
2. F.L. 7249
3. F.L. 7459
4. F.L. 7462
5. F.L. 7463
6. F.L. 7464
7. F.L. 7465
8. F.L. 7466
9. F.L. 7467
10. F.L. 7468
11. F.L. 7471
12. F.L. 7472
13. F.L. 7472 A
14. F.L. 7473
15. S.P. 115/32
16. S.P. 116/33
17. S.P. 117/34
18. Camb. Ff. V. 42
19. Camb. Ff. V. 43
20. Camb. Ff. V. 44
21. Esc. J. III. 31
22. Cortes 2787
23. Molf. 5-7 H 15
24. Cors. 35 E 22
25. Soc. Mess. di Storia Patria 1
26. Fi Naz., Magl. Cl. XIV. 39
27. Parm. Pal. 1023, fasc. 6
28. Barb. Lat. 2158, cc. 143r-146v
29. ARSI, Ital. 137, c. 95

3.2  Non-autograph Manuscripts and Copies

1. Vat. lat. 3131
2. Catania, Bibl. Univ., U.52
3. F.L. 7251
4. F.L. 17859
5. Nap. I. E. 56
6. Lucca, Bibl. Gov., ms. 2080
7. Esc. &.IV.22, cc. 185r-185v
8. Hamburg, Cod. Math. 483 (Quarto)
9. Erl. 831 (già 970)
10. Erl. 832 (già 909)
11. Erl. 833 (già 986)
12. ME Univ., F.V. 175, cc. 838r-844v, 782r-790r
13. Bodl. 6556 (Savile 9), cc. 10r-28r
14. APUG, Fondo Curia 2052

3.3  Lost Codices

 
1. Villacanense
2. Palermo, già nella Biblioteca dei Gesuiti
3. Bibl. Innocenzo Roccaforte
4. Bibl. Innocenzo Roccaforte
5. Bibl. Arenaprimo

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