{"id":591,"date":"2014-03-13T16:27:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T20:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/?p=591"},"modified":"2014-04-01T18:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:40:53","slug":"the-manuscripts-of-cardinal-bessarion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/the-manuscripts-of-cardinal-bessarion\/","title":{"rendered":"The manuscripts of Cardinal Bessarion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by <a title=\"Rare Books and Special Collections blog author page\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/author\/jillian-tommmail-mcgill-ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jillian Tomm, Postdoctoral Fellow<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Rare Books &amp; Special Collections<\/p>\n<p>This volume, the <em>Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468,<\/em>\u00a0records a number of Greek and Latin manuscripts, once owned by the fifteenth-century scholar Cardinal Bessarion (1403-1472), which formed the nucleus of the Bibliotheca Marciana of Venice. The list is heavily marked by a reader with a parallel and different set of numbers.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that this volume was used and marked by Bessarion specialist Lotte Labowsky, who published on <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=WHD&amp;adjacent=1&amp;request=labowsky%20bessarion\">Bessarion\u2019s library<\/a>. The volume is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/rarebooks\/special-collections\/klibansky\">Raymond Klibansky Collection<\/a>\u2014Klibansky and Labowsky worked closely for decades on several topics including Labowsky\u2019s Bessarion work, and a number of books in the Klibansky Collection were previously owned by her. The handwritten numbers resemble those left by Labowsky in her corrections to Klibansky\u2019s Latin edition of Locke\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=catalogue&amp;request=000752321\">Epistola de tolerantia<\/a><\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/79700897\">Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468<\/a>\u00a0(Book)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/871697317\">Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468<\/a>\u00a0(eBook)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_594\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/871697317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-594\" class=\" wp-image-594  \" title=\"Title page of &quot;Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468&quot;\" alt=\"Title page of &quot;Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/03\/Title-page_-rbsc_inventaire-des-manuscrits-grecs-latins_Z6621B55462B471894-613x1024.png\" width=\"584\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/03\/Title-page_-rbsc_inventaire-des-manuscrits-grecs-latins_Z6621B55462B471894-613x1024.png 613w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/03\/Title-page_-rbsc_inventaire-des-manuscrits-grecs-latins_Z6621B55462B471894-179x300.png 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Title page of &#8220;Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_593\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mcgill.worldcat.org\/oclc\/871697317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-593\" class=\" wp-image-593  \" title=\"Page 29 of &quot;Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468&quot;\" alt=\"Page 29 of &quot;Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/03\/Page-29-from-rbsc_inventaire-des-manuscrits-grecs-latins_Z6621B55462B471894-2-613x1024.png\" width=\"584\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/03\/Page-29-from-rbsc_inventaire-des-manuscrits-grecs-latins_Z6621B55462B471894-2-613x1024.png 613w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2014\/03\/Page-29-from-rbsc_inventaire-des-manuscrits-grecs-latins_Z6621B55462B471894-2-179x300.png 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page 29 of &#8220;Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by Jillian Tomm, Postdoctoral Fellow\u00a0in\u00a0Rare Books &amp; Special Collections This volume, the Inventaire des manuscrits grecs &amp; latins donn\u00e9s \u00e0 Saint-Marc de Venise par le cardinal Bessarion en 1468,\u00a0records a number of Greek and Latin manuscripts, once owned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/the-manuscripts-of-cardinal-bessarion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,51,79],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-margins","category-rbsc","category-raymond-klibansky-collection","tag-bessarion-cardinal-1403-1472-library-catalogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}