Basinio de Parma (1425-1457)

Date:
c.1475
Reference:
MS.122
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Basinio de Parma (1425-1457). Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Written in a neat humanistic hand. Illustrated with 38 well executed pen drawings of constellations, etc., the stars in red. The manuscript is foliated 120r-153v, so it was originally part of a larger work. The illustrations are mostly in the style of the printed editions of Manilius, Hyginus and Aratus.

f. 121r Aetherios orbis, subiectaque templa deorum / Musa cane, atque uias semper uoluentis olimpi / ... 153v Qui nunc astrorum motus subiectaque diuum / Templa cano atque uias semper uoluentes olimpi.

Publication/Creation

c.1475

Physical description

1 volume 35 ll. (first & last 2 bl.). 4to. 19 1/2 x 14 cm. Modern vellum binding. A leaf has been cut out after the end of the text.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1923.

Biographical note

This poem was dedicated to Sigismondo Pandulfo Malatesta [1417-1468]. According to Tiraboschi 'Storia della letteratura Italiana'. Vol VI, Part I, p. 896, it was written in 1454-1456. Cf. also B. Soldati 'La poesia astrologica nel quattrocento', Florence. 1906. Cap. I, pp. 74-104.

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This material has been digitised and can be freely accessed online through Wellcome Collection catalogue.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 42860