MS 40 Oratio in laudem rei publicae venetorum; Vita caroli magni, etc.
Title
Oratio in laudem rei publicae venetorum; Vita caroli magni, etc.Authors
- Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459 (http://viaf.org/viaf/19722038)
- Einhard, approximately 770-840 (http://viaf.org/viaf/14778504)
- Alcuin, 735-804 (http://viaf.org/viaf/96533523)
Other related names
- Canonici, Matteo Luigi 1727-1805, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/2384880)
- Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/60702448)
- Gordan, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/64131789)
- Gordan, John D., 1907-1968, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/74651936)
Funders
- Council on Library and Information Resources
Call number
MS 40(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
Bryn Mawr College LibraryLanguage
LatinOrigin
15th century
- Place
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Northern Italy
Summary
This manuscript is a humanistic miscellany written in northern Italy in the fifteenth century. The volume contains three texts: Poggio Bracciolini, In laudem rei publicae Venetorum (fols. 1r-23v); Einhard, Vita Excellentissimi Imperatoris Magni Caroli (fols. 25r-66r); Alcuin, Confessio [for Charlemagne] (fols. 66v-70v). The beginning of each text is marked by white-vine illumination; the coat of arms on the first page suggests original ownership by a member of the Bembo family of Venice. The scribe has been identified as Giovanni di Ubaldino deli Stagnesi.
Notes
- Formerly numbered Gordan MS 149
- Portions of the text on 70r-v illegible due to staining
- First two front flyleaves paper, third flyleaf contemporary parchment added to first quire; fol. 71 is another contemporary parchment flyleaf added to last quire, followed by two paper flyleaves
Extent
Iii+71+ii; 147 x 105 mm bound to 154 x 107mmFoliation
Modern foliation in pencil, lower left rectoCollation
1 (9, +3), 2-8 (8), 9 (7, +1)Support
ParchmentCatchwords
Vertical catchwords, verso, bottom of page, inner margin, written from top to bottomBinding
Eighteenth-century mottled calf with gold tooling on covers and spine; on small dark brown panel on spine: Poggii/ Oratio/ Vita C. M./ Cod. M.Layout
Decoration
Two three-quarter white-vine borders with five-line and six-line gold initials (fols. 1r, 25r); two gold initials with white-vine extensions (fol. 27v, fol. 66v); rubricated in red
Script
Provenance
- Written in northern Italy during the fifteenth century; coat of arms on fol. 1r suggests that the first owner was probably a member of the Venetian Bembo family as does the bookplate of Walter Sneyd, who in 1835 bought the remainder of the collection of the Venetian Abate Matteo Luigi Canonici; Sneyd's sale (16 Dec. 1903?); on first flyleaf recto in lead: "1931 cat./121" and "349" scratched out and replaced with "354"; in the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (2 bookplates) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1995
Related resources
- De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 399-400, no. 54.
- Kristeller, P.O., Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries (London, 1963-97), vol. 5, p. 351, no. 149.
- Tischler, Matthias M., Einharts "Vita Karoli": Studien zur Entstehung, Überlieferung und Rezeption (Hannover: Hahnsche, 2001) vol. 2, p. 1484-1496.
Keywords
- Italian
- 15th century
- History
- Theology
- Miscellany
- White-vine lettering
- Italy
- Humanistic
Licenses
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- Text
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Table of contents
- fol. 1r — Oratio in laudem rei publicae venetorum, Poggio Bracciolini; incipit: Singularem rei publicae uenetorum in omni uirtutum genere praestantiam quibus possem laudibus prosequi cupientem ... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ... factiones tantum modo absint, cum eternitate esse certaturum. [fol 23v]
- fol. 25r — Vita Excellentissimi Imperatoris Magni Caroli, Einhard; incipit: Gens meroingorum de qua franci reges ... [fol. 27v]; explicit: ... inspecto eodem breuiario qui celerrime poterat post obitum eius summa deuotione implere curauit. [fol. 66r]
- fol. 66v — Confessio, Alcuin; incipit: Deus inextimabilis [sic] misericordiae ... [fol. 66v]; explicit: ... per immortalia regnans secula seculorum, Amen. [fol. 70v]
Decorations
- Inside front cover — Bookplate, Walter Sneyd
- Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Phyllis Walter Goodhart
- fol. 1r — Large illuminated initial S and three-sided white-vine border with coat of arms
- fol. 25r — Large illuminated initial S and three-sided white-vine border
- fol. 27v — Illuminated initial G with white-vine extensions
- fol. 66v — Illuminated initial D with white-vine extensions
- Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Phyllis Walter Goodhart
- Inside back cover — Bookplate, Phyllis Walter Goodhart
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Section: Oratio in laudem rei publicae venetorum, Poggio Bracciolini
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