The Library of a 'Humanist Prince' Federico da Montefeltro and His Manuscripts [by M.G. Critelli]

Sacred and profane

As to the sacred Doctors in Latin, he had the works of all four [Urb. lat. 52, 74], and what a noble set of letters and writings we have here; bought without regard of cost. After the four Doctors, he was set on having the works of S. Bernard and of all the Doctors of old, without exception, Tertullian, Hilarius, Remigius, Hugh de S. Victor, Isidore, Anselm, Rabanus and all the rest. After Latin works came Greek writings done into Latin, Dionysius the Aeropagite, Basil, Cyril, Gregory Nazianzen, John of Damascus, John Chrysostom, Gregory of Nicea, all the works of Eusebius, of Ephrem the monk, and of Origen an excellent writer. Coming to the Latin Doctors in philosophy and theology, all the works of Thomas Aquinas [Urb. lat. 136] and of Albertus Magnus; of Alexander ab Alexandro, of Scotus, of Bonaventura, of Richard of Mediavilla, of the Archbishop of Antoninus and of all the recognised modern Doctors, down to the Conformità of S. Francis: all the works of civil law in the finest text, the lectures of Bartolo written on goat-skin.

Urb. lat. 74, f. 1r - Urb. lat. 136, f. 1r 

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He had an edition [= manuscript book] of the Bible made in two most beautiful volumes, illustrated in the finest possible manner and bound in gold brocade with rich silver fittings. It was given this rich form as the chief of all writings [Urb. lat. 1-2; see also Urb. lat. 10]. With it are all the commentaries of the Master of the Sentences, of Nicolao di Lira, and of all the Greek and Latin Doctors, together with the literal glossary of Nicolao di Lira.

Urb. lat. 1, f. 6v - Urb. lat. 2, f. 1v 

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Urb. lat. 10, ff. 19v-20r 

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Likewise all the writers of astrology, geometry, arithmetic, architecture [Urb. lat. 264] and De re Militari [Urb. lat. 1221, Urb. lat. 281]; books on painting, sculpture, music and canon law, and all the texts and lectures on the Summa of Ostiensis and other works in the same faculty. In medicine all the works of Avicenna, Hippocrates, Galen [Urb. lat. 248], the Continenti of Almansor and the complete works of Averroes in logic and natural philosophy. A volume of all the Councils, held since ancient times, and the logical, philosophical and musical works of Boethius (Vespasiano, Lives, pp. 102-103).

Urb. lat. 281, f. 146r - Urb. lat. 248, f. 2r 

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