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Title

Orationes ad nicolaum V, etc.

Authors

• Manetti, Giannozzo, 1396-1459 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n79065095)
• Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50043172)
• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50039889)

Other related names

• Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, former owner
• Gordan, John Dozier Jr., former owner
• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/nr99022084)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50078542)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 41
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms41.shtml
• Gordan: MS 54

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This fifteenth-century Italian manuscript contains six texts: Giannozzo Manetti, Oration to Nicholas V (fols. 1r-10v); Poggio Bracciolini, oratio ad summum pontificem Nicolaum V (fols. 11r-19r); Franciscus de Padua de Florentia, Letter to Nicholas V (fols. 19r-24r); Leonardo Bruni, Oratiuncula ad Martinum V (fols. 24r-26r); Leonardo Bruni, State Letter for the Commune of Florence to the Emperor (fols. 26v-27v); Leonardo Bruni, State letter for the Commune of Florence to the Council of Basel (fols. 27v-31v). The arms on fol. 1r suggest that the first owner was a member of the Picenardi family.

Extent

I+31+i; 215 x 140 mm bound to 225 x 150 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

1-3 (10), 4 (1, +1)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in center of lower margin

Binding

Modern calf, vertical gold stamp on spine: ORATIO FLORENTINORUM AD NICOLAUM V.; restored by J. McDonald Co. East Norwalk, Conn.

Layout

Single column written in twenty-one lines, ruled with single vertical bounding lines in ink; written area: 140 x 85 mm

Decoration

Fol. 1r includes a four-line gold initial on a blue ground entwined with white-vine stems on a pink, green, and dark blue ground with vine work; in the lower margin a border in the same style surrounds a shield, argent, with a unicorn rampant gules; this coat of arms appears to be a later addition; similarly styled four-line initials may be found on fols. 11r and 28r; three-line initials on fols. 19v and 24r; on fol. 26v a gold initial infilled with green and pink stands on a square blue ground to which a few thin gold lines have been added; headings in pale red

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Written in Italy around 1450-60; the arms on fol. 1r suggest that the first owner was probably a member of the Picenardi family of Cremona; bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps from Payne; Phillipps number 4209 written on front pastedown in lead on fol. 1r in right lower margin in ink, on a printed label in the inner margin, and in the upper margin in lead; also on fol. 1r, in gutter, in ink "light cf"; on front pastedown, in lead: "£ 24--"; purchased from E. P. Goldschmidt by Howard L. Goodhart, and left by him to Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate) in 1995
   

Subjects topical

• Nicholas V, Pope, 1397-1455

Keywords

• Italian
• 15th century
• History
• Miscellany
• Italy
• Illumination

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Giannozzo Manetti, Oration to Nicholas V; incipit: Si nobis coram sanctitate tua beatissime pater . . .; explicit: Caeterum quaedam alia restant quae cum sanctitati tuae placuerit, opportunioribus locis atque temporibus referemus. FINIT.
• fol. 11r — Poggii Florentini, oratio ad summum pontificem Nicolaum V; incipit: Scio consuetudinis esse beatissime pater omnium . . .; explicit: Iam emeritis stipendiis in coloniam . . .
• fol. 19v — Franciscus de Padua de Florentia, Letter to Nicholas V; incipit: Si quid Beatissime pater de rerum tuarum magnitudine hac breui oratione dissero quod ad tuam uel laudem uel gloriam magis pertinere uideatur.; explicit: Ibi ego solium glorie . . .
• fol. 24r — Leonardo Bruni, Oratiuncula ad Martinum V; incipit: Consueuerunt beatissime pater qui legationis officio fungentes sedem apostolicam . . .; explicit: Sunt alia quaedam a nobis seorsum tuae beatitudinis explicanda que cum tempus dabitur exponemus. Finita.
• fol. 26v — Leonardo Bruni, State Letter for the Commune of Florence to the Emperor; incipit: Serenissime ac gloriossisime princeps et domine post humilem recommendationem . . .; explicit: Mercatores autem egratiam et benignitatem regiam in suis negotiis reportent. Datum.
• fol. 28r — Leonardo Bruni, State letter for the Commune of Florence to the Council of Basel; incipit: Reuerendissimi in Christo patres et domini post humilem recommendationem.; explicit: Nec tam imprudenter facturis iste sapientiam sacri concilii de insipientia reprehendere a usu temerario praesumat.

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Phyllis Walter Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Bookseller's notes
• fol. 1r — Four-line illuminated initial S; a shield, argent, with a unicorn rampant gules in lower margin
• fol. 11r — Four-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 13v — Manicule
• fol. 19v — Three-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 24r — Three-line illuminated initial C
• fol. 26v — Two-line illuminated initial S
• fol. 28r — Four-line illuminated initial R