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...
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