Bryn Mawr College, MS 48

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16548

Shelfmark:

MS 48

Title:

De nobilitate, etc.

Author:

Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459

Poggio Bracciolini WIKIDATA

Marsuppini, Carlo, 1398-1453

Carlo Marsuppini WIKIDATA

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.

Petrarch WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

1440-1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 114+i; 222 x 152 mm bound to 232 x 165 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Gordan, Phyllis Goodhart

Phyllis Walter Goodhart Gordan WIKIDATA

Gordan, John Dozier Jr.

John Dozier Gordan WIKIDATA

Note:

Previously Gordan 51
Binding: Twentieth-century parchment
Layout: Single column of twenty-one lines (fols. 1r-105v) or twenty-two to twenty-three lines (fols. 106r-113r); ruled with faint vertical bounding lines in hard point with a double vertical bounding line on the left and a single on the right in ink; remains of pricking in right margin; written area: 136 x 90 mm
Script: Humanistic
Script: Written by multiple hands
Decoration: Six three- or four-line illuminated initials with marginal foliate and floral extensions marking text divisions (fols. 1r, 3r, 38v, 43v, 48r, 50r) in the first four works of the volume; partial illuminated border with blue shield, its device effaced, in lower margin of opening page (fol. 1r); partial illuminated border with pink flowers from a gold urn in lower margin of the...
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. 399, no. 51.
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. 51.
Related resource: Ullman, B.L. Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova, 1964) p. 460.
Related resource: Dutschke, Dennis. Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padua, 1986), p. 219, no. 88.
Provenance: Written in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century; in the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1995 (bookplate)

Keyword:

Miscellanea

Italian (culture or style)

illuminations (paintings)

Fifteenth century

humanistic scripts

Italy

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS48.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS48/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College