Bryn Mawr College, MS 45

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16545

Shelfmark:

MS 45

Title:

Epistolae familiares

Epistolae familiares

Author:

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444

Leonardo Bruni WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1426-1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i+161+i; 256 x 175 mm bound to 264 x 190 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951

Howard Lehman Goodhart WIKIDATA

Gordan, Phyllis Walter Goodhart

Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan WIKIDATA

Gordan, John D., 1907-1968

John Dozier Gordan WIKIDATA

Note:

Previously Gordan MS 74
Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter-morocco gilt; on green-stained panels on spine in gold: LEONARD/ BRUNI/ EPISTOLA and MST. IN/ MEMBRANIS
Layout: One column of twenty-seven lines (fols. 1-80); one column of twenty-eight lines (fols. 81-161); ruled with double vertical and horizontal bounding lines in hard point, full length (fols. 1-96); ruled with double vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines (fols. 97-161); pricking in right margin; written area: 180 x 105 mm
Script: Humanistic
Decoration: Five-line illuminated initial L and an unidentified coat of arms, which shows a shell over a chevron above a cross, set into a dark blue diamond with gold penwork flourishes (fol. 1r); two-line initials alternating red and blue, which begin each letter, until fol. 142r, where two-line initials are either added in brown ink or (several times) the space left blank
Related resource: Faye, C. U., continued and edited by W. H. Bond, Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 401, no. 74.
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), pp. 55-90.
Related resource: Luiso, F. P. "Studi su L'epistolario di Leonardo Bruni," Studi Storici 122-124 (Rome, 1980).
Provenance: Written in Florence in the second quarter of the fifteenth century; large and ornate ownership note (?) in seventeenth-century hand in upper margin of fol. 1r: "Coquil[le]"; below that in outside margin: "Collegii Sancti Ieronimi de Dola strictioris obseruantiae Cluniacensis 1048" [corrected from 1408]; note on fol. ii verso "Burgdieu (Burgus Dolensis) in Berry (Bituricensis...

Keyword:

Italian (culture or style)

manicules

Fifteenth century

humanistic scripts

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS45.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS45/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College