Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms40.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

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 107mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower left recto

Collation

1 (9, +3), 2-8 (8), 9 (7, +1)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords, verso, bottom of page, inner margin, written from top to bottom

Binding

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

Single column written in twenty lines, ruled with single vertical bounding lines in lead; paragraphs marked by initial outside the written area; written area: 90 x 65 mm

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

Humanistic

Scribe: Giovanni di Ubaldino deli Stagnesi (Matthew Tischler, Einharts "Vita Karoli," vol. 2, 1484–1496)

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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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