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Murano, Giovanna

Ser Piero Cennini, copista ed editore

2021 - Leo S. Olschki

P. 209-236

  • This article is dedicated to the figure of ser Piero Cennini (1444-1484), one of the 103 copyists active in Florence in the second half of the Quattrocento who are included in the inventory compiled by Albinia de la Mare in her study New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence. According to Berthold Ullman, Piero Cennini was “more of an editor than a mere copyist” and this assertion is confirmed by the analysis of his manuscript production and by his rare and valuable edition of Servius' Commentarii, realized together with his father, the goldsmith Bernardo Cennini, and his brother, between 1471 and 1472, most likely the first printed in Florence.
  • Ser Pietro transcribed more than 30 manuscripts, partly for himself, such as the zibaldone Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II IX 14. The colophones that characterize Piero's entire manuscript production also accompany the edition of Servius' Commentarii. They are expressly addressed ‘to the reader' and offer various information on the choices which were made in printing the volume. [Publisher's text]

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Bibliofilia : rivista di storia del libro e di bibliografia : CXXIII, 2/3, 2021