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Title

Renaissance miscellany

Authors

• Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379
• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
• Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1370-1444

Call number

Ms. Codex 685
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874723503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615141
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487472

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1500

Place

Italy

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
   
• Title and attribution for item 1 in a different hand from text (f. 1r).
   
• Item 2 heading (f. 33v): Leonardi Aretini prefatio in libro Basilii Magni Greci incipit feliciter.
   
• Item 3 heading (f. 48r, later addition): Leonardus Aretinus illustri D.D. Baptistinae de Malatestis.
   
• Item 4 heading (f. 62r): Prestantissimi viri Leonardi Aretini Isagogicon moralis disciplinae galeotum ricasolanum feliciter incipit, f. 62r, in a different hand from the text.
   

Extent

77 leaves : 233 x 164 (147 x 101) mm. bound to 237 x 172 mm

Foliation

Paper; i (modern paper) + 77 + i (modern paper); [1-77]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Green vellum.

Layout

Written in 25 long lines (Items 1-3) and 27 long lines (Item 4); ruled in drypoint.

Decoration

Illuminated initials in red, green, blue, pink and gold (f. 1r, 33v, 62r); initials in red or blue.

Script

Written in 2 humanistic hands, items 1-3 in first hand; item 4 in a second hand, with headings and marginal notations in several later hands, in Latin and Italian.

Provenance

• Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1951.
   

Subjects topical

• Education--Early works to 1800
• Ethics--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper
• Ethics

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De ingenuis moribus, f. 1r
• fol. 33v — De legendis antiquorum libris, f. 33v
• fol. 48r — De studiis et letteris, f. 48r
• fol. 62r — Isagogicon moralis disciplinae, f. 62r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Manicule, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Manicule, f. 3v
• fol. 4r — Manicule, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Manicule, f. 4v
• fol. 33v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 33v
• fol. 62r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 62r