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Title

Commentarius rerum suo tempore gestarum, oratio heliogabali ad meretrices

Authors

• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50039889)

Other related names

• Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, former owner
• Gordan, John Dozier Jr., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 42
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms42.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern Italy

Summary

This is a northern Italian, late fifteenth-century manuscript containing two texts: Leonardo Bruni's Rerum suo tempore commentarius and his Oratio Heliogabali Augusti ad meretrices, which is preceded by an argumentum.

Extent

Ii+50+i; 225 x 146 mm bound to 233 x 160 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-5 (8), 6 (10)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower right margin in gutter, verso

Binding

Twentieth century, red velvet cover boards; library no. "87" on small paper panel on spine

Layout

Single column, twenty-four lines, ruled in red ink with double vertical bounding lines in red ink or hard point, pricking in the three outer margins; written area: 145 x 85 mm

Decoration

Three- and four-line illuminated initials at the beginning of each text; coat of arms in the lower margin, effaced so that the device is no longer visible; marginalia throughout

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Written in Northern Italy in the late fifteenth century; early provenance unknown; on flyleaf 2v in a 17th century hand: "Continet codex iste nitidissimus Leonardi Aretini Historiarum Sui Temporis Summarium in quo laudes Principum in Italiam tunc temporis dominantium habentur. In fine extat Oratio Heliagabali [sic] ad Meretrices iam edita apud Aldum Anno 1516 in 8 eodem Aretino auctore."; on rear flyleaf 1r in lead: "£4/ 1/7/22" and "3950"; in the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate) in 1995; unidentified bookplate with initials MT inside a circle below a cross
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Commentary
• Illumination

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Leonardo Bruni / Commentarius rerum suo tempore gestarum; incipit: Qui per Italiam homines excelluerint etate mea et que conditio rerum queue studiorum ratio fuerit libuit in hoc libello discursu breui colligere; explicit: Ita ex turbulentissima tempestate qua creati fueramus res prospere leteque sunt ad extremum secute cum ingenti gloria et exaltatione civitatis. Finis. Leonardi Aretini De Temporibus Suis Summarium
• fol. 43r — Argumentum
• fol. 43v — Oratio Heliogabali Augusti ad meretrices; incipit: Incredibilis me libido habet commilitiones et uehementem in me ardorem concitari sentio cum multitudine uestra. . .; explicit: . . . Leonardus Aretinus recreandi ingenii causa ludens ridensque dictauit. Vnde seniores rogat ne legant urbanio res ne esserant. Deo gratias

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Phyllis Walter Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Unidentified bookplate with initials MT inside a circle below a cross
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bryn Mawr College Library bookplate "From the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordon '35"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookseller's note
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Note: "1995 Gordon Library"
• fol. 1r — Coat of arms in the lower margin, effaced so that the device is no longer visible
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 43r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 43v — Illuminated initial I
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookseller's note
• Inside back cover — Bookseller's note