Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Marciana

The collection of the Marciana Library contains 4,639 manuscripts and 13,117 manuscript volumes.[1] Its historical nucleus is the private collection of Cardinal Bessarion, which was donated to the Republic of Venice in 1468.

frontispiece and title page from eighteenth-century catalogue of Greek codices

frontispiece and title page from eighteenth-century catalogue of Latin codices
The catalogues of the library, compiled by Antonio Maria Zanetti and Antonio Bongiovanni and published in 1740 and 1741

Manuscripts

Some significant manuscripts in the collection include:

Greek

Italian

Latin

Oriental languages

  • Or. 90 (= 57): İskendernâme by Taceddin İbrahim bin Hizir Ahmedî, illuminated Ottoman version of the Alexander Romance (fifteenth century)[15]


Biblical manuscripts

Old Testament

  • Gr. Z. 1 (=320): Old Testament (beginning with the Book of Job), companion to the Vatican codice Vat. Gr. 2106 (eighth century) on-line
  • Gr. Z. 17 (=421): "Psalmi cum catena", the 150 Psalms with commentary and illustrations, (tenth-early eleventh century) on-line
  • Gr. Z. 538 (=540): "Catena in Job", text of the Book of Job with catena and 30 miniatures (905)

New Testament

Cartography

Music manuscripts

There are some important music manuscripts. The composers represented include:

Notes

  1. Patrimonio librario. Biblioteca. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  2. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 122. For a description of the codex, see the exhibition catalog Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2013), pp. 17–19, ISBN 0642278091.
  3. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 62
  4. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 64
  5. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 82
  6. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 148
  7. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 115
  8. For a discussion, see The Codex Cumanicus in Peter B. Golden, ed.,Studies on the peoples and cultures of the Eurasian steppes (Bucharest: Academiei Române, 2011), pp. 333–366, ISBN 9732721529.
  9. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 192
  10. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 196
  11. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 102
  12. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 144
  13. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 162
  14. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 166
  15. Zorzi, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia, p. 180
  16. Rosand, Ellen (2008). "'Cavalli a le stelle' Cavalli and the staging of Venetian opera". Gresham College.
  17. "L'Erismena". baerenreiter.com.
  18. White, Robert (July 2007). "The mercurial maestro of Madrid".

References

  • Labowsky, Lotte, Bessarion's Library and the Biblioteca Marciana, Six Early Inventories (Rome: Storia e Letteratura, 1979) ISBN 9788884985699
  • Raines, Dorit, 'Book Museum or Scholarly Library? The ‘Libreria di San Marco’ in a Republican Context', Ateneo veneto, CXCVII, terza serie, 9/II (2010), 31–50 (ISSN 0004-6558)
  • Rapp, Claudia, 'Bessarion of Nicaea', in Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, ed., The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 125–126 ISBN 0674072278
  • Zanetti, Antonio Maria, ed., Græca D. Marci Bibliotheca codicum manu scriptorum per titulos digesta (Venetiis: Casparis Ghirardi & Simonem Occhi, 1740)
  • Zanetti, Antonio Maria, ed., Latina et italica D. Marci Bibliotheca codicum manu scriptorum per titulos digesta (Venetiis: Casparis Ghirardi & Simonem Occhi, 1741)
  • Zorzi, Marino, Biblioteca Marciana Venezia (Firenze: Nardini, 1988) ISBN 8840410031
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