Identifier:

COLLECTION 953, BOX 1 NO.3.

Scope and content:

[ff. 49-55 are bound before ff. 1-48].

1) ff. 1-16v: Sanfelice della Campagna felice a Elio Marches di famiglie [Antonio Sanfelice, Campania (Naples, 1562 etc.)]; the heading is on f. i^v. f. 17r-v blank.

2) ff. 18-49v: [Francesco Elto Marchesi] IX novembris MDLIX. Francisci Aelii Marchesii Neapolitani De nobilium familiarum origine libellus ad Hieronymum Carbonem Neapolitanum . . . VIII Dec. describere explevi horis succisivis ob negociorum molem, sed desiderium atque aviditas mira hęc audiendi et memorię mandandi omnia superavit. Antonius Feltrius bona fide ex codice qui LX propemodum annis latuerat.

Other manuscript copies of this work are recorded in Kristeller, Iter italicum, vol.1, no.127, 353, 397; vol.2, no.96, 332, 341, 450, 451, 470.

3) ff. 53-52: [38 couplets] Augustino Nipho medici philosopho Hieronymus Carbo. Liber ago in terris vitam sine turbine rerum . . . O decus et verę nobilitatis Amor: Finis.

Concerning Girolamo Carbone see Dizionario biografico degli italiani vol.19 (1976) pp.695-698.

4) f. 52v: <. . . tear . . . >-ns Alexandrinus In oratione adhortatoria ad Gręcos sive ad Gentes , f.23. Solent enim nescio quomodo . . . etiam haberi in admiratione.

5) f. 53r-v: Ioannis Casae ad Galeatium Florimontis Ut Capta reditus Helena cum coniugio Troia . . . Nixa diu tandem plagis perterrita currit.

60 verses, not included in Opere di Monsignor Giovanni della Casa, ed. A. Pasinelli, 5 vols. (Venice, 1728-1729).

6) f. 54r-v: Prestantissimo iuveni Colae Antonio Caracciolo Marchioni Vici Paulus Manutius S.P.D. [E. Pastorello, L 'epistolario manuziano: Inventario cronologico-analitico 1483-1597 (Venice, 1957) no. 1052: Rome, 28 February 1562]. f. 55 Notes in various hands, including the name “Hannibal Caraciolo” and the date 1561.

7) f. 55v: [Antonio Sanfelice, three Latin couplets] F. Antonii Santofelicin. Moribus antiques senioque . . . est inimica probis.

Acquisition information:

Two other volumes are kept in this box: (i) a miscellany of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century manuscript copies of earlier documents (A.D. 1182 to s. XVI) relevant to the Kingdom of Naples, bound with miscellaneous printed items, and (ii) Gaspare Deodato Zamponi, Del Regno di Napoli, Memorie, indrizzate agli eccellentissimi Signori della Reggenza , s. XVIII; and there are three other boxes of late miscellaneous materials, printed and manuscript, concerning the history of Naples (Collection 953, Boxes 2-4). Each volume, including the present, bears two armorial bookplates with mottoes “Ex libris Marchionis Salsae” and “Comme je fus,” found also in Manuscript 170/292. Among the materials bound in the present volume are verses in several hands, with dates in the 1770s, dedicated to the “Eccellentissima Signora Donna Gioseffa Malaspina, Marchesa di Salsa.” Acquired by UCLA in 1966 from an unknown source.

Physical description:

Paper, ff, i + 55; 271 × 205 mm. Written by several late humanistic hands.

Bound in limp vellum, s. XVIII, with a large miscellany of later printed and manuscript items.

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