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Beinecke MS 684
Italy, s. XVI 1
Vita Nicolai Albergati
1. f. 1r-v Vita del beato Nicolo Albergati Bolognese. Ad reverendissimum patrem et
dominum, dominum Petrum Barbum, sancti Marci presbyterum cardinalem, in vitam
pr?stantissimi cardinalis Sanct? Crucis Iacobi Zeno, Feltrensis et Bellunensis episcopi, praefacio
incipit. Quantam vim vel virtus vel opinio fidesque virtutis apud potissimum bene institutum
animum habeat, reverendissime pater, etsi pleraque alia documento sint, tamen ex hoc vel maxime
intelligi posse mecum ipse sepenumero cogitans animadverti ... Ita in me amando atque tuendo,
quo nihil in humanis mihi carius esse potest, et teipsum et reliquos omnes excedas et superes,
supplici obsecratione et incessabili deprecatione deposco. Vale felix.
Preface to art. 2, addressed to Pietro Barbo (cardinal 1451, afterwards Pope Paul II, 1464-1471).
Bertalot, Initia (Prosa) 17632.
2. ff. 2r-7r De vita et moribus Nicolai cardinalis Sanct? Crucis. Inter reliquas Bononi? urbis
familias prestans satis et clara haberi solita est Albergatorum stirps, eo potissimum quod viros
divinarum humanarumque rerum doctissimos et iurisconsultos celeberrimi nominis quamplurimos
in lucem eduxerit ... Funeralibus egregie celebratis Thomas apostolicus subdiaconus, qui famili?
pr?sidebat et apud Nicolaum diutissime manserat, quo illi nemo carior erat, nonnullis ex familia
comitibus sumptis corpus ad Cartusie locum, quod parum Florentia aut a [aut a: l. abest ut a]
Nicolao vivente institutum fuisse diximus, detulit et pie religiosissimeque sepulcro condidit, ubi
ad hodiernam iacet diem; anima, ut recte iudicandum est, in superis gloriosa felicitate beata.
Explicit de vita et moribus Nicolai cardinalis Sancte Crucis.
Artt. 1-2: Iacobus Zeno (d. 1481), De vita et moribus Nicolai Albergati. BHL 6096, Bertalot,
Initia (Prosa) 9935; ed. Acta Sanctorum, Mai II, 469-477. Niccolo Albergati (1375-1443)
became 1417 bishop of Bologna and 1426 cardinal. See about him Dizionario biografico degli
Italiani, v. 1 (Rome, 1960), pp. 619-621.
Paper, ff. 8, 305 x 215 mm. Several margins and folds strengthened by means of strips of paper
pasted on them.
I-II4 (front fly-leaf + ff. 1-7) . "Typographical" horizontal catchwords at right on all verso pages.
Copied by one hand in late Humanistica Cursiva Libraria.
Undecorated.
Half blue marbled paper binding, the covers of white cardboard. On the front cover a large paper
label with engraved flowery cartouche and handwritten title s. XVIII: "Vita B. Nicolai Albergati
a Iacobo Zeno descripta. Ms." At the top an oval label with the number "33" (s. XIX).
Inside the front cover a s. XVII/XVIII inscription: "****************".
Purchased from William Salloch, Ossining, N.Y., on the Douglas M. Moffat Fund.
Albert Derolez
R 17.02.09