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Title

De miseria conditionis humanae

Authors

• Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50043172)

Other related names

• Gordon, Phyllis Goodhart, former owner
• Gordan, John Dozier Jr., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 47
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms47.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This is a late fifteenth-century Italian manuscript of Poggio Bracciolini's De miseria conditionis humanae (usually called De miseria humanae conditionis). The work is a type of socratic reflection, inspired by the sack of Constantinople, which Bracciolini wrote in his retirement in Florence.

Notes

• Previously called Gordan MS 50
   

Watermark

Watermark similar to Briquet Monts 11726

Extent

Ii+ 48+ii; 255 x 207 mm bound to 261 x 218 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-4 (10), 5 (8)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower right margin

Binding

Modern paper boards, leather spine, stamped in gold: POGGIO/ DE/ MISERIA. Restored by J. MacDonald Co. East Norwalk, Conn.

Layout

Single column of twenty-nine lines; ruled in hardpoint with vertical bounding lines full length; written area: 145 x 111 mm

Decoration

One four-line red penwork initial with elaborate black penwork extensions stretching along the inner margin appears on fol. 1r, and on 28r a similar, but slightly less elaborate, three-line initial begins Book 2; on fol. 2v space for initial left unfilled; marginalia throughout

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century; early provenance unknown; in the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1995
   

Related resources

• 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. 399, no. 50.
• 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. p. 351, no. 50.
• Bracciolini, Poggius. De miseria. R. Fubini, ed., Opera omnia I (Torino, 1964) 86-131.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Treatise
• Italy
• Penwork initial

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Poggio Bracciolini, De miseria conditionis humanae; incipit: Inter varios scriptores qui . . .; explicit: Ut libet Cosmus inquit . . .

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Phyllis Walter Goodhart
• fol. 1r — Two-line initial I, red ink, penwork flourishes
• fol. 17v — Manicule
• fol. 26v — Manicule
• fol. 28r — Two-line initial S, red ink, penwork flourishes