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

Title

Ad adolescentes de legendis libris gentilium (Address to young men on the right use of greek literature)

Authors

• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80004066.html)

Other related names

• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444, translator (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50039889.html)
• Leonardus Martinotius, former owner
• Petrus Martinotius, former owner
• J. Marstili, former owner
• Petrus Leonardus, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 237
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains the treatise Ad adolescentes de legendis libris gentilium.

Notes

• Flyleaves are parchment
   

Extent

Ii+30+ii; 147 x 104 mm bound to 156 x 110 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary running headings recto and verso

Collation

1-3 (10)

Support

Paper

Catchwords

Bottom right verso with floral decoration: fols 10v, 20v

Binding

Eighteenth-century mottled calf

Layout

Frame-ruled in hardpoint; one column of 16 lines; written area: 83 x 51 mm

Decoration

Two four-line initials in gold, one-line initials in red; marginalia throughout

Script

Humanistic

Scribe: Franciscus Tuisanus

Provenance

• Inscribed on flyleaf: "Codex mei Leonardi Martinotii Fanensis"; inscribed in semi-Roman hand on verso of endleaf: "Petrus Martinotii"; fifteenth-century inscription on flyleaf: "J (?) Marstili"; Petrus Leonardus, inscribed in fifteenth-century hand on verso of flyleaf and on endleaf: "iste liber est mei Petri Leonardi" and "Basilius mei Johannis batiste Petri Leonardi"; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Keywords

• Treatise
• 15th century
• Christian
• Italy
• Paper
• Philosophy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Inside front cover — Notations in ink
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in ink
• fol. 1r — Ad adolescentes de legendis libris gentilium
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in ink

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Globus Cruciger
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Provenance, "Codex mei Leonardi Martinotii Fanensis"
• fol. 1r — Four line illuminated initial E
• fol. 3r — Four line illuminated initial M
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Globus Cruciger
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Provenance, "Codex mei Leonardi Martinotii Fanensis"