Filologija, No. 67, 2016.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/yvjrdcnnpy
School Glosses in the Trogir Manuscript of Propertius and Ovid (MS BAV Vat. lat. 5174): A Note on Humanist Teaching in Renaissance Dalmatia
Luka Špoljarić
; The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Abstract
In 1980 literary historian Šime Jurić drew the attention of the Croatian academia to MS BAV Vat. lat. 5174, a humanist miscellany copied in 1464/1465 in the Dalmatian city of Trogir, comprising Propertius’s Elegies, Ovid’s Epistula Sapphus, and shorter medieval and humanist poetry, most notably the elegiac poem by Ivan Lipavić, an otherwise unknown local humanist. While MS BAV Vat. lat. 5174 is thus long considered important as one of some twenty identified humanist manuscripts of Dalmatian provenance, this paper focuses on its annotations which have so far escaped scholarly attention. As is shown, the two sequences of glosses (V1 next to first three books of Propertius, and V2 next to Epistula Sapphus) reveal that the manuscript was used in the local school, which makes it the very first identified school manuscript from fifteenth-century Dalmatia. Highlighting the dominance of Italian humanist teachers in Dalmatian cities, such as Trogir, Zadar and Split, the paper turns to Robert Black’s seminal study of Italian humanist curriculum to categorize and contextualize the glosses of the two Trogir pupils, and reflect on some questions of humanist teaching in Dalmatia before the expansion of Venetian printing industry in the 1470s. Finally, the paper presents the transcription of the marginalia made by the two pupils.
Keywords
Dalmatia; Trogir; Renaissance humanism; pupil glosses; education; reading; Propertius; Ovid
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186139
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Publication date:
4.9.2017.
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