De Balneis Puteolanis
Manuscript Information
Title of manuscript: De Balneis PuteolanisMS call number (and folio selected): MS 1474, folio 8v and 8r
Current location: Biblioteca Angelica, Rome
Place of creation: Southern Italy
Date of creation: Between 1211 and 1220
Codicology and Paleography
Language(s) of text: LatinScript: Textualis Rotunda
Abbreviations: None
Textual corrections
Contemporary: None
Later: None
Marginal commentary
Contemporary: None
Later: None
Rubrication: First line of writing above the body of text. Distinguished by its red color, but the same size as the rest of the script. Red accented letters at the beginning of each line which are slightly bigger than the body text.
Instructions for scribe: None
Instructions for rubricator and/or artist: None
Provenance
Marks of ownership: Biblioteca AngelicaPrevious owners: Fredrick II and Mario Guidarelli
Mise en page
Columns: OneLines per column: 13 lines
Decoration (in hierarchical order)
Gilding: NoneSmall ink initials: Blue initial before rubrication beginning the body of text (top of 8v).
Pen flourished initials: None
Painted initials: None
Gold initials: None
Foliate initials: None
Zoomorphic initials: None
Anthropomorphic initials: None
Historiated initials: None
Miniatures: Full Page
Marginal Illustrations: None
Full page illustration: Miniature
Other Information
These two folios come from a small book called De Balneis Puteolanis. The book is an informative work about the healing baths in Italy near Naples. The text was originally created as a diplomatic gesture from Peter of Eboli gifted to Fredrick II, who was the King of Italy at the time. The text gained popularity and was later replicated and translated into French and Italian.In the nineteenth century, while the book was in the care of Biblioteca Angelica, it was rebound. During this process the pages were mixed-up, and the book was reassembled with them in the incorrect order, then it was renumbered.Folio 8v and 8r are unique in that they are bound together in the correct order, *v describing the miniature on 8r. The text describes a bath, Balenum Sulfurata whose waters was said to hold healing properties for gynecological ailments.
Further readings
Kauffmann, Claus M. The Baths of Pozzuoli: A Study of the Medieval Illuminations of Peter of Eboli's Poem. Oxford: Cassirer, 1959. Print.
Grévin, Benoît. Pierre d’Éboli: Les Bains de Pouzzoles. Paris: Fondation Martin Bodmer, 2012.
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