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

Title

De bello italico adversus gothos, etc.

Authors

• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50039889.html)

Other related names

• Gordon, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, former owner
• Gordan, John Dozier Jr., former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50078542.html)
• Rowe, Louis Thompson, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 43
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms43.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern Italy

Summary

This late fifteenth-century manuscript contains Leonardo Bruni's De bello italico adversus gothos and two letters by Bruni.

Notes

• Previously called Gordan MS 52
   
• MS 52 has been badly damaged by fire and water, especially at the beginning and end; most of the text is still legible, with the greatest damage to the text on ff. 1r-v and 2r, where several places are almost completely effaced; the presence of "ghost initials" (e.g. fols. 32v, 34r, 55r), several places in the text where a page is marked with the trace of an initial that looks as if it has bled from the opposite page where there is no initial, suggests that at some time the manuscript was taken apart, put back together incorrectly, then later reassembled in the correct order
   

Extent

Iv+76+i; 200 x 139 mm bound to 216 x 158 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-7 (10), 8 (6)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Vertical catchwords on first two signatures (fols. 10v, 20v) along inner bounding lines

Binding

Twentieth-century vellum, vertical gold stamp on spine: LEONARDUS ARETINUS DE BELLO GALLICO. MS. 15TH CENT.

Layout

Single column, twenty-six lines, ruled in red ink with single vertical bounding lines; written area: 130 x 85 mm

Decoration

Two-, three- and four-line initials at the beginning of each book; fol. 1r, a four-line gold initial on a white-speckled dark red ground, with white-vinework intertwined; fols. 2r and 39r three-line gold initials on dark red outlined and speckled with gold; fols. 22v and 58r three-line gold initials on a blue ground; marginalia in red throughout

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Written in Northern Italy in the last quarter of the fifteenth century; early provenance unknown; a penciled note on flyleaf 2r claims the water and fire damage to this MS occurred in the Great Fire of London in 1666; flyleaves 3 and 4 contain a long excursus in an eighteenth-century hand on the contents of the manuscript and the career of L. Bruni, a pencil note on flyleaf 2 adds a crude biographical note on Bruni from the Chalmers Dictionary of Biography; from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, no. 21920 in ink on fol. 1r; number in upper corner of front pastedown in lead: "43992 Ms.", below that: "V 121"; bookplate of "Louis Thompson Rowe of XV Hammersmith Terrace, W." in the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1995
   

Related resources

• Bond, W. H. Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962.
• 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.
• Hankins, James. "Bruni Manuscripts in North America: a Handlist." Nuovi Studi Storici 10 (1991) 55-90.
• Mehus, L. ed., Leonardi Bruni Arretini Epistolarum Libri VIII (Florence, 1741).
• Luiso, F. P. Studi su L'epistolario di Leonardo Bruni, Studi Storici 122-124 (Rome, 1980).

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• History
• Damage
• Illumination
• White-vine lettering

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Leonardo Bruni / De bello italico adversus gothos, etc.; incipit: Z[enone Romano] principe imperatore Gothi Theodorico; explicit: Quo facto cumas ac cetera quae superant oppida narses recepit. Finisque fuit anni decimoctaui huius belli. Amen.
• fol. 74v — Letter IX.13
• fol. 75r — Letter IX.5

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Phyllis Walter Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Bookplate of Louis Thompson Rowe
• Inside front cover — Bookseller's notes
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookseller's notes
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Bookseller's note
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial Z
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 39r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 58r — Illuminated initial E
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookseller's notes