Bryn Mawr College, MS 44

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16544

Shelfmark:

MS 44

Title:

Epistolae familiares

Epistolae familiares

Author:

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444

Leonardo Bruni WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+144+ii; 279 x 186 mm bound to 289 x 205 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart

Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan WIKIDATA

Gordan, John Dozier Jr.

John Dozier Gordan WIKIDATA

Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951

Howard Lehman Goodhart WIKIDATA

di Luni, Pietro

Pietro WIKIDATA

Note:

Previously Gordon MS 57
The final leaves of the last quire have been cut out
Binding: Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century parchment, brown-stained panel on spine stamped in gold: ARETINI/ EPISTOLARI
Layout: Single column; twenty-eight lines; ruled with double vertical and horizontal bounding lines in hard point; pricking extant; written area: 172 x 107 mm
Script: Humanistic bookhand
Script: Florentine scribe Giovanni di Piero da Stia (c. 1406-1474)
Decoration: Books 1-8 begin with four-line illuminated initials, gold with pen-lined branchwork twining around it, on a pink and green white-speckled ground outlined in blue; Book 9 begins with a two-line red initial; each individual letter of the book begins with a red initial outside the block of the text; marginalia 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: 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).
Related resource: Novati, F. ed. Epistolario di Coluccio Salutati, (Rome, 1904) vol. 4, pp. 105-109, ep. XIV.xv.
Related resource: Griggio, Claudio. "Due Lettere Inedite del Bruni Al Salutati e a Francesco Barbaro," Rinascimento 26 [1986] 27-50.
Related resource: Hankins, James. "Bruni Manuscripts in North America: a Handlist," Nuovi Studi Storici 10 (1991) 55-90.
Provenance: Written in Florence in the mid-fifteenth century; early provenance unknown; according to James Hankins, who describes the text fully in "Bruni Manuscripts in North America: a Handlist," Nuovi Studi Storici 10 (1991) 55-90, the manuscript has been "attributed to the Florentine scribe Giovanni di Piero da Stia (c. 1406-1474)" by Albinia de la Mare (59); he adds that: Giovanni, who...

Keyword:

Epistolaries

Italian (culture or style)

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS44.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College