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Title

Renaissance miscellany

Authors

• Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
• Aurispa, Giovanni, ca. 1376-1459
• Barbaro, Francesco, ca.1398-1484
• Beccadelli, Antonio, 1394-1471
• Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459
• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
• Carbone, Ludovico, 1430?-1485?
• Cermisoni, Antonio
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Este, Leonello d'
• Giustiniani, Leonardo, ca. 1388-1446
• Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460
• Livy
• Loschi, Antonio, d. 1441
• Lucian, of Samosata
• Maria, Filippo
• Medici, Cosimo de', 1389-1464
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374

Other related names

• Allen, William H, former owner
• Curtius, Lancinus, former owner
• Lockwood, Dean Putnam, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 829
(3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9931765513503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155860094
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3176551

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1459-1484

Place

Written in Italy

Summary

Miscellany of materials from Renaissance and classical authors, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Cicero, and Livy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• No overall title in the text; title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
   
• Incipit (1st work): Eloquentissimi viri Leonardi Aretini prefatio in laudatione clarissimi viri Nannis Stroze equitis Florentini. [Exp.] ... honore et perpetua civium suorum commendatione [felicem?]. Finis.
   
• Incipit (2nd work): Contentio de presidentia P. Scipionis, Hanibalis et Alexandri ex Luciano auctore greco latina facta per Johannem Aurispam. [Exp.] Et Alexander secundus sit et tertius si nidet Annibal [haec?] hic quidem spernendus est. Finis.
   
• Incipit (3rd work): Francisci Petrarce clarissimi poete et hystoria singularis collatio facta inter Scipionem Romanum, Alexandrum Macedonem, Annibalem Penum et Pyrhum Epirotharum regem quis eorum prestantior fuerit. [Exp.] ... ipse Annibal. Aliquantoque facilius fuit. Finis.
   
• Incipit (4th work): Luciani philosophi libellus de virtute conquerente in quo introducitur Mercurius ... [Exp.] Virtus: Eternum lamentandum est. Ego nuda ac despecta abeo. Finis.
   
• Incipit (5th work): Comperatio P. Scipionis et C. Julii Cesaris edita per Pogium virum disertissimum. [Exp.] Vale. Florentie quarto Idus Aprilis.
   
• Incipit (6th work): Epistola Guarini Veronensis viri doctissimi ad illustrem dominum Leonellum Estensem. [Exp.] ... pro tua severitate se[nte]ntiam proferes. Vale.
   
• Incipit (7th work): Guarinus Veronensis impatiens quod Pogius scripserit Scipionem praestare Caesari ... [Exp.] ... et docti et diserti viri rerum scriptoris nomen et preconium consignari. Vale.
   
• Incipit (8th work): Epistola Pogii viri disertissimi ad clarissimum meum Cos[i]mam de Medicis. [Exp.] ... necessaria in oblivionem laberentur. Vale.
   
• Incipit (9th work): Disceptatio habita inter doctissimos viros Nicolaum Niccolum et Carolinum Aretinum. An seni sit uxor ducenda -- per Pogiu[m] scripta. [Exp.] ... ne cum dicta essent [?] eximus. Finis.
   
• Incipit (10th work): Leonardi Justiniani Veneti viri [patertii?] oratio habita in funere clarissimi viri Caroli Zeno. [Exp.] Sed et imitatione quoque ac opere declaremus. Finis.
   
• Incipit (11th work): Poggius Florentinus vir disertissimus per moleste secens q[uod] Guarin[us] Veronensis ad eum tam contumeliose scripserit in defendendo Cesarem edidit libellum in quo susceptam causam Scipionis defendit et ante ora[tionem] p[er] hanc ep[isto]lam se excusat apud illustrem dominu[m] Leonellum Marchionem Estensem. [Exp.] ... quod tu senseris sentire volo ac tuo indicio assentiri. Vale.
   
• Incipit (12th work): Epistola eiusdem Poggius ad clarissimum virum Franciscum Barbarum civem Venetum. [Exp.] ... vel me vel Guarinum vel utcumque aut temeritatis aut ignorantie accusabis. Vale.
   
• Incipit (13th work): Sequitur libellus [?] defensio Poggii Florentini contra Guarini oppugnationes d[e] prestantia Cesaris et Scipio[n]is. [Exp.] Vale et parce longitudini me[a]e. Ex Florentia.
   
• Incipit (14th work): Epistola Antonii Panormite ad divu[m] p[ri]ncipem Phillippu[m] Mariam. [Exp.] Magna quidem coniectura probitatis est et laus non ultima principi et summo viro collibuisse. Vale.
   
• Incipit (15th work): Responsio divi p[ri]ncipis Philippi Marie ducisM[i]l[an]i Anto[n]io s[upra]s[crip]to. [Exp.] ... ut alter alterius possit gaudere p[raese]ntia. Vale.
   
• Incipit (16th work): Alia responsio Antonii Panormite p[rae]libato duci Mediolani. [Exp.] ... tum locum mihi decernere quo melius id possim aggrediar idque perficiam. Vale spes Musarum.
   
• Incipit (17th work): Epistola Antonii Panormite ad Aluysium Crottum ducalem ... [Exp.] Vale meum decus. Ex Papia.
   
• Incipit (18th work): Argumentum Pompeiane. Cicero creatus pretor Romanus ... [Exp.] ... eloquentia contraria argumenta confutat.
   
• Incipit (19th work): M. T. Ciceronis de laudibus G. N. Pompei oratio incipit. [Exp.] ... meis omnibus commodis et rationibus preferre opportere. Finis.
   
• Incipit (20th work): Solvite Pierides contuso pectore ... [Exp.] ... fractus contegitur lapide.
   
• Incipit (21st work): Caius Sextus Pompeius Strabo veteribus incolis ... [Exp.] ... maiestatem minuisset capitalis esset.
   
• Incipit (22nd work): Inter bellorum magnorum strages ac vix dum ... [Exp.] vicensimo primo anno post abrogata est [?] lata.
   
• Incipit (23rd work): Pillule Mag[ist]ri Antonii Cermisoni. [Exp.] ... in sole sicut siccantur [alifangine?].
   
• Work 4, attributed to Lucian in the manuscript, is by Leon Battista Alberti (Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue).
   
• Work 20, with no attribution in the manuscript and listed as anonymous by Zacour-Hirsch, is by Ludovico Carbone (Stillman).
   
• Folios 1r. and 105r. have the inscription, "Liber Lancini Curtii artiu[m] scolaris m[edio]l[an]en[sis] 1484."
   

Watermark

Several folios bear the watermark of a crown that is not included in Briquet's Les Filigranes (Stillman).

Extent

105 leaves : 231 x 169 (157 x 110) mm. bound to 235 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, ii + 105 + i; [ii], 1-105, [i], contemporary foliation in black ink.

Collation

I¹⁰, II⁴, III³, (IV-X)¹⁰, XI⁸, XII¹⁰ (Stillman).

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century vellum with a few worm holes.

Layout

Written in a single column of 31 lines, frame-ruled in ink and lead.

Decoration

The initial at the start of the introduction to the first work is ornamented with green, pink, and blue (1r.); the initial at the start of thefirst work proper is ornamented with purple (1v.). Most works begin with a red initial; titles and names of characters in dialogues are written in red.

Script

Written in one hand, in an Italian humanistic script.

Provenance

• Lancinus Curtius, Milan, 1484 (1r., 105r.); Dean Putnam Lockwood, Haverford, Pa., 1946.
   
• Sold by William H. Allen, 1947.
   

Subjects topical

• Education--Early works to 1800
• Epigrams, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Funeral orations--Early works to 1800
• Latin letters, Medieval and modern
• Latin literature, Medieval and modern

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Laudatio clarissimi vir Nannis Stroze equitis Florentini, f. 1r
• fol. 11v — Contentio de presidentia P. Scipionis, Hanibalis et Alexandri, f. 11v
• fol. 14r — Collatio facta inter Scipionem Romanum, Alexandrum Macedonem, Annibalem Penum et Pyrhum Epirotharum regem, f. 14r
• fol. 19r — Libellus de virtute conquerente, f. 19r
• fol. 20r — Comperatio P. Scipionis et C. Julii Caesaris, f. 20r
• fol. 26r — Epistola ad illustrem dominum Leonellum Estensem, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Letter to Poggio concerning the comparison between Caesar and Scipio, f. 26v
• fol. 45r — Epistola ad clarissimum virum Cosimam de Medicis, f. 45r
• fol. 45r — Disceptatio habita inter doctissimos viros Nicolaum Niccolum et Carolum Aretinum: an seni sit uxor ducenda, f. 45r
• fol. 52r — Oratio habita in funere clarissimi Caroli Zeno, f. 52r
• fol. 58r — Epistola apud illustrem dominu[m] Leonellum Marchionem Estensem, f. 58r
• fol. 58v — Epistola ad clarissimum virum Franciscum Barbarum civem Venetum, f. 58v
• fol. 59r — Defensio contra Guarini oppugnationes de prestantia Cesaris et Scipionis, f. 59r
• fol. 78v — Epistola ad divu[m] p[ri]ncipem Phillippu[m] Mariam, f. 78v
• fol. 79v — Responsio Antonio, f. 79v
• fol. 80r — Alia responsio duci Mediolani, f. 80r
• fol. 81r — Epistola ad Aluysium Crottum, f. 81r
• fol. 83v — Argumentum Pompeiane, f. 83v
• fol. 84r — De laudibus G. N. Pompei oratio, f. 84r
• fol. 96v — Four distichs, f. 96v
• fol. 97r — Legislative acts from the republican period, f. 97r
• fol. 101r — Extract: the repeal of the Lex Oppia, f. 101r
• fol. 105v — Pillule, f. 105v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Penwork initial, Initial F, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Penwork initial, Initial I, f. 1v
• fol. 11r — Cross outs, f. 11r