Bryn Mawr College, MS 42

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16542

Shelfmark:

MS 42

Title:

Commentarius rerum suo tempore gestarum, oratio heliogabali ad meretrices

Rerum suo tempore gestarum commentarius

Author:

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444

Leonardo Bruni WIKIDATA

Place:

Northern Italy

Northern Italy TGN

Date:

1485-1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii+50+i; 225 x 146 mm bound to 233 x 160 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart

Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan WIKIDATA

Gordan, John Dozier Jr.

John Dozier Gordan WIKIDATA

Note:

Binding: Twentieth century, red velvet cover boards; library no. "87" on small paper panel on spine
Layout: Single column, twenty-four lines, ruled in red ink with double vertical bounding lines in red ink or hard point, pricking in the three outer margins; written area: 145 x 85 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: Three- and four-line illuminated initials at the beginning of each text; coat of arms in the lower margin, effaced so that the device is no longer visible; marginalia throughout
Provenance: Written in Northern Italy in the late fifteenth century; early provenance unknown; on flyleaf 2v in a 17th century hand: "Continet codex iste nitidissimus Leonardi Aretini Historiarum Sui Temporis Summarium in quo laudes Principum in Italiam tunc temporis dominantium habentur. In fine extat Oratio Heliagabali [sic] ad Meretrices iam edita apud Aldum Anno 1516 in 8 eodem Aretino...

Keyword:

Italian (culture or style)

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

Italy

Commentaries

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS42.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS42/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College