Bryn Mawr College, MS 43

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16543

Shelfmark:

MS 43

Title:

De bello italico adversus gothos, etc.

De bello italico adversus Gothos

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: iv+76+i; 200 x 139 mm bound to 216 x 158 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart

Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan WIKIDATA

Gordan, John Dozier Jr.

John Dozier Gordan WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Rowe, Louis Thompson

Louis Thompson Rowe WIKIDATA

Note:

Previously called Gordan MS 52
MS 52 has been badly damaged by fire and water, especially at the beginning and end; most of the text is still legible, with the greatest damage to the text on ff. 1r-v and 2r, where several places are almost completely effaced; the presence of "ghost initials" (e.g. fols. 32v, 34r, 55r), several places in the text where a page is marked with the trace of an initial that looks as if it has...
Binding: Twentieth-century vellum, vertical gold stamp on spine: LEONARDUS ARETINUS DE BELLO GALLICO. MS. 15TH CENT.
Layout: Single column, twenty-six lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical bounding lines; written area: 130 x 85 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: Two-, three- and four-line initials at the beginning of each book; fol. 1r, a four-line gold initial on a white-speckled dark red ground, with white-vinework intertwined; fols. 2r and 39r three-line gold initials on dark red outlined and speckled with gold; fols. 22v and 58r three-line gold initials on a blue ground; marginalia in red throughout
Related resource: Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.
Related resource: Kristeller, P.O., Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries (London, 1963-97), vol. 5, p. 351, no. 149.
Related resource: Hankins, James. "Bruni Manuscripts in North America: a Handlist." Nuovi Studi Storici 10 (1991) 55-90.
Related resource: Mehus, L. ed., Leonardi Bruni Arretini Epistolarum Libri VIII (Florence, 1741).
Related resource: Luiso, F. P. Studi su L'epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, Studi Storici 122-124 (Rome, 1980).
Provenance: Written in Northern Italy in the last quarter of the fifteenth century; early provenance unknown; a penciled note on flyleaf 2r claims the water and fire damage to this MS occurred in the Great Fire of London in 1666; flyleaves 3 and 4 contain a long excursus in an eighteenth-century hand on the contents of the manuscript and the career of L. Bruni, a pencil note on flyleaf 2 adds...

Keyword:

Italian (culture or style)

Lettering

illuminations (paintings)

damage (condition)

Fifteenth century

History

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS43.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS43/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College