The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1029

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9911

Shelfmark:

mssHM 1029

Title:

Vita Bruti

Life of Brutus

Author:

Plutarch

Plutarch WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460

Guarino da Verona WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1440 and 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 24 : paper ; 200 x 275 mm

Former Owner(s):

Drury, Henry, 1778-1841

Henry Drury WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Support: Paper.
Script: Cursive with some humanistic features.
Layout: 1-212. Catchword in center lower margin. 36 long lines in quire 1, 34 in quire 2; horizontal rules in ink, vertical double bounding lines in lead; the written space placed towards the center of the page with 45-50 mm. margins at either side.
Span folios: ff. 1-24v.
Other Decoration: 5-line plain initial in the ink of the text, f. 1, followed by the first line in display capitals; pale red-brown rubrics on f. 1, on the last note on f. 23v and the note on f. 24v. Notes added on f. 23v in a humanistic script are: Omnia prius experiri consilio quam armis sapientem decet et cetera; Vincat honestas commoda propria et iustitia ac leges humanos coherceant...
Acknowledgments: We thank Dr. A. C. de la Mare for kindly identifying the person who added notes in the margins.
Assigned Date: s. XVmed.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/30/2012.
Written in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century; it possibly once also included a Life of Alexander. Belonged to the Rev. Henry Drury (1778-1841), with his signature in the upper right hand corner of the first flyleaf; his sale, London, 19 February 1827, n. 3464 to Sir Thomas Phillipps. Phillipps n. 3377 and his pressmark on the front pastedown; Phillipps sale, Sotheby's, 10 June 1896, n. 959 to...

Keyword:

Translations

Biographies

manuscripts (documents)

Statesmen

Greece

Brutus, Marcus Junius, 85 B.C.?-42 B.C.

Dion, approximately 408 B.C.-354 B.C.

Rome (Empire)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862143

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Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens