Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Libro de optimo imperatore

Authors

• Onasander (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr93019118)

Other related names

• Sekoundinos, Nikolaos, 1402-1464?, translator (https://lccn.loc.gov/n82073722)
• Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n90636281)
• Canonici, Matteo Luigi, 1727-1805, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr98044437)
• Winter, George, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 53
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval/onosander-greek-sagundinus-60916

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Venice?, Northeastern Italy

Summary

This is a Northeastern Italian manuscript from the later part of the third quarter of the fifteenth century. It contains Onasander's Libro de optimo imperatore, translated into the Latin by Nicolaus Sagundinus.

Watermark

Unidentified watermark, barely visible, fols. 6 and 23

Extent

I+30+i; 191 x 137 mm bound to 198 x 147 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-3 (10)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords along the bounding line

Binding

Nineteenth- or early twentieth-century half leather and marbled paper binding, spine with gilt title: "ONOSANDER LATINE M.S. SAEC. XV"

Layout

Single column of thirty-one lines; Horizontal rules in brown ink; full-length single vertical bounding lines ruled in lead or brown crayon; single large pricking in the outer margin; written area: 149 x 105 mm

Decoration

Two blank spaces for four-line initials; guide letters for initials throughout

Script

Humanistic Cursive

Provenance

• Reverend Walter Sneyd of Keele Hall Staffordshire (1809-1888), who acquired the surplus of Matteo Luigi Canonici's library in 1835. His round heraldic bookplate pasted inside front cover: "Guelteri Sneyd ex-libris." Sold at Sotheby's 16 December 1903, lot. 565. Belonged to Wigan Free Library, their oval stamp in blind on fols. 1 and 28; and their large printed bookplate front flyleaf fol. i; front cover on paper, "Case 13" and front flyleaf fol. iv, "E.P.B. case 13"; bought from George Winter, 1904, his name on a blue paper slip loosely inserted. Described as MS 42411 while at the Wigan Library
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Humanistic
• Italy
• Italian
• Treatise

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Onosander, Libro de optimo imperatore, Preface; incipit: [S]uperiore tempore serenissime Rex cum apud maiestatem tuam. Inclini senati veneti iussu annum ferme in urbe Neapoli peregissem satis intelligere potui multisque rationibus coniecturam facile feci.; explicit: Eque enim et res abste geste autoritate atque amplitudine regia illustrantur et dignitas ac maiestas ipsa rerum gestarum celebritate et gloria decoratur. Sed iam onosandrum ipsum audiamus.
• fol. 2r — Onosander, Libro de optimo imperatore; incipit: [E]quitandi aut venandi piscandi denique vel; explicit: Verum etiam perpetuande propagandeue sue glorie citra periculum sapiens imperator atque custos et moderator diligentissimus.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Round heraldic bookplate for Reverend Walter Sneyd: "Guelteri Sneyd ex-libris."
• Inside front cover — Bookseller's notes in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate for the Wigan Free Library
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookseller's note in pencil: "E.P.B. case 13."
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in ink in middle of page: "42411."
• fol. 1r — Oval stamp in blind for the Wigan Free Library
• fol. 28r — Oval stamp in blind for the Wigan Free Library
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate for the Wigan Free Library
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookseller's note in pencil in upper left corner: "TM661"