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

Title

Epistolae familiares

Authors

• Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 (http://viaf.org/viaf/95283478)

Other related names

• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/78699777)
• 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 45
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms45.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This is a humanistic manuscript of letters by Leonardo Bruni, with one letter of Coluccio Salutati to Innocent VIII (fols. 2v-3v), copied in Italy in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. The lower margin has been cut away from over half of the leaves, with no loss of text. Multiple readers have added notes and manicules in the margins.

Notes

• Previously Gordan MS 74
   

Extent

I+161+i; 256 x 175 mm bound to 264 x 190 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-14 (10), 15 (12), 16 (9, +9)

Signatures

Traces of quire and leaf signatures on a few leaves

Support

Parchment

Binding

Eighteenth-century quarter-morocco gilt; on green-stained panels on spine in gold: LEONARD/ BRUNI/ EPISTOLA and MST. IN/ MEMBRANIS

Layout

One column of twenty-seven lines (fols. 1-80); one column of twenty-eight lines (fols. 81-161); ruled with double vertical and horizontal bounding lines in hard point, full length (fols. 1-96); ruled with double vertical and upper horizontal bounding lines (fols. 97-161); pricking in right margin; written area: 180 x 105 mm

Decoration

Five-line illuminated initial L and an unidentified coat of arms, which shows a shell over a chevron above a cross, set into a dark blue diamond with gold penwork flourishes (fol. 1r); two-line initials alternating red and blue, which begin each letter, until fol. 142r, where two-line initials are either added in brown ink or (several times) the space left blank

Script

Humanistic

Provenance

• Written in Florence in the second quarter of the fifteenth century; large and ornate ownership note (?) in seventeenth-century hand in upper margin of fol. 1r: "Coquil[le]"; below that in outside margin: "Collegii Sancti Ieronimi de Dola strictioris obseruantiae Cluniacensis 1048" [corrected from 1408]; note on fol. ii verso "Burgdieu (Burgus Dolensis) in Berry (Bituricensis) Benedictine Abbey f. 917 Suppv 1623 Dôle (Ille-et-Vilaine) Anc. abb. and évêché"; on fol. ii recto: Middle Hill stamp of Sir Thomas Phillipps above the manuscript number 1042; bought by Howard L. Goodhart from Maggs in 1944, and left by him to Phyllis Goodhart Gordan and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College (bookplate) in 1995
   

Related resources

• Faye, C. U., continued and edited by W. H. Bond, Supplement to the census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 401, no. 74.
• 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), pp. 55-90.
• Luiso, F. P. "Studi su L'epistolario di Leonardo Bruni," Studi Storici 122-124 (Rome, 1980).

Keywords

• Italian
• Italy
• 15th century
• Humanistic
• Manicules

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Leonardo Bruni / Epistolae familiares; incipit: LEONARDVS COLVCIO salutem plurimam dicit ... [fol. 1r]; explicit: Vale decus nostri seculi XII octobri florentie. DEO GRACIAS. DEO GRATIA. [fol. 161r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Bryn Mawr College Library, "From the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordon '35"
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Middle Hill stamp of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. no. 1042
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 1r — Unidentified coat of arms, shell over a chevron above a cross
• fol. 44v — Manicule
• fol. 48v — Manicule
• fol. 49r — Manicule
• fol. 56v — Manicule
• fol. 62v — Manicules
• fol. 88r — Manicule
• fol. 101v — Manicule
• fol. 106v — Manicule
• fol. 107v — Manicule
• fol. 108r — Manicule
• fol. 125v — Manicule
• fol. 130v — Manicule
• fol. 133v — Manicule
• fol. 151v — Manicule
• fol. 154r — Manicule
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Middle Hill stamp of Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. no. 1042