Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

De evangelica praeparatione

Authors

• Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 260-approximately 340 (http://viaf.org/viaf/4929593/#Eusebius,_of_Caesarea,_Bishop_of_Caesarea,_approximately_260-approximately_340)

Other related names

• George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486, translator (http://viaf.org/viaf/102317361/#George,_of_Trebizond,_1396-1486)
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/78699777/#Goodhart,_Howard_Lehman,_1884?-1951)
• Taylor, Alice M., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 9
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms9.shtml
• Goodhart: 79

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This is an Italian manuscript from the mid-fifteenth century, which contains Eusebius' De evangelica praeparatione, translated by George of Trebizond.

Notes

• Previously Goodhart 79
   

Watermark

Watermarks similar to Briquet Char 3528; fols. 64-end similar to Briquet Monts 11859

Extent

Ii+224+ii; 282 x 208 mm bound to 286 x 214 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right, recto

Collation

1-14 (16)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords in lower inner margin

Binding

Late nineteenth-century quarter calf on paper boards; stamped on spine in gold: "EVSEBII/ OPERA/ MS. XV CENT"

Layout

Single column, thirty-five to thirty-eight lines, double vertical and single horizontal bounding lines in lead; written area: 119 x 105 mm

Decoration

Fourteen five- to twelve-line gold illuminated initials on blue, red, and green ground outlined in black and white with intertwined white vinestems, the first two create a partial inner border; four three- to four-line gold illuminated initials; finding aids and headings in red

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Early provenance unknown; late ownership inscription on front pastedown: "Alice M. Taylor" together with library shelf numbers in lead: "AR I 52" and "76 G."; on back parchment endpaper in two fifteenth-century hands: "Quod Aristoteles fuerit nacione judeus libro quarto capite tertio" and "A creacione mundi usque ad annum incarnationis domini fuerunt anni 3793; secundum ebraicam veritatem ab ipso autem anno usque ad annum domini 1500. Si auferas 33, remanent 1467, si istos addas invenies annos 5260."; on back flyleaf 1r in a modern hand in lead: "223 hojas (96 vitela)." Sold by Maggs (catalogue entry Dec. 1948) to Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate), and given by him to Bryn Mawr College in Nov. 1951
   

Related resources

• Eusebius Caesariensis, De evangelica praeparatione; Lat. trans., Georgius Trapezuntius, (Venice, 1470).
• Monfasani, John, ed. Collectanea Trapezuntiana: Texts, Documents, and Bibliographies of George of Trebizond; Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, (Binghampton, New York, 1984) pp. 721-726.
• 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. 434, no. 9.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Humanistic
• Theology
• Illumination
• Italian

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De evangelica praeparatione; incipit: Eusebii pamphili de euangelica preparacione latinum ex greco beatissime pater iussu tuo effeci...; explicit: Qui nec sensu nec ratione quicquam posse comprehendi docentes magno risu omnium explosi sunt. Finis. Aureus humane penetrans precordia uite pamphilus hic felix explicit Eusebius.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate for Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Ownership inscription in pencil: "Alice M. Taylor"
• Inside front cover — Library shelf numbers in pencil: "AR I 52" and "76 G"
• Inside front cover — Pasted in catalogue entry, Dec. 1948, by Maggs
• Flyleaf 1 recto — In pencil, in modern hand: "223 hojas (96 vitela)"
• fol. 1r — Nine-line illuminated initial E with partial inner border
• fol. 3r — Ten-line illuminated initial C with partial inner border
• fol. 10r — Three-line illuminated initial T
• fol. 12v — Four-line illuminated initial T
• fol. 18v — Five-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 19r — Four-line illuminated initial T
• fol. 22r — Three-line illuminated initial C
• fol. 30r — Five-line illuminated initial H
• fol. 47v — Eight-line illuminated initial H
• fol. 64r — Seven-line illuminated initial D
• fol. 67r — Manicule
• fol. 77r — Nine-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 98v — Nine-line illuminated initial H
• fol. 114v — Eleven-line illuminated initial H
• fol. 133v — Eleven-line illuminated initial N
• fol. 146r — Eleven-line illuminated initial H
• fol. 161v — Twelve-line illuminated initial Q
• fol. 184r — Twelve-line illuminated initial V
• fol. 197r — Twelve-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 212r — Eleven-line illuminated initial N
• fol. 224r — In ink, in a fifteenth-century hand: "Quod Aristoteles fuerit nacione judeus libro quarto capite tertio"
• fol. 224r — In ink, in a fifteenth-century hand: "A creacione mundi usque ad annum incarnationis domini fuerunt anni 3793; secundum ebraicam veritatem ab ipso autem anno usque ad annum domini 1500. Si auferas 33, remanent 1467, si istos addas invenies annos 5260"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — In pencil, in modern hand: "223 hojas (96 vitela)"
• Inside back cover — Notes in pencil