Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Excerpta orationum Demosthenis et Aeschini (Excerpts of the Orations of Demosthenes and Aeschines); Historia Romana (History of Rome)

Authors

• Eutropius, active 4th century (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85083031.html)
• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50039889.html)
• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80004066)

Other related names

• Richardson, Thomas F., former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 71
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 175

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a fifteenth-century Italian manuscript containing a collection of texts.

Extent

I+54+ii; 240 x 165 mm bound to 245 x 170 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto

Collation

1-6 (8), 7 (6)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords throughout on the lower right, on 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v

Binding

Old calf with gilt floral stamps at the corners and in the centers of the sides, in cloth case

Layout

One column of thirty-two lines; very lightly lined and frame-ruled; written area: 173 x 110 mm

Decoration

Five ornamental initials in gold and colors with marginal tracery; the coat-of-arms of the original owner in red and gold at the foot of the first page; capitals in red and blue; paragraph marks in red

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Unidentified arms of the original owner on the first page (barry of six gules and or); Thomas F. Richardson, Boston, his sale, June 11, 1919; to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936.
   

Keywords

• Miscellany
• 15th century
• Italian
• Humanistic
• Italy
• History
• Literature -- Prose

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Eutropius, Historia Romana (History of Rome); incipit: Primus in Italia ut quibusdam placet regnavit Janus…
• fol. 38r — Excerpta orationum Demosthenis et Aeschini (Excerpts of the orations of Demosthenes and Aeschines)
• fol. 40r — Leonardus Brunus Aretinus, Epistola ad dominam Battistam de Malatestis (Letter to Battista de Malatesta)
• fol. 47v — Basil of Caesarea, De legendis libris gentilium, translated by Leonardus Arentinus

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial P and coat of arms
• fol. 9r — Marginal notation
• fol. 38r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 40r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 47v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial M