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Title

De nobilitate, etc.

Authors

• Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459 (https://lccn.loc.gov/n50043172)
• Marsuppini, Carlo, 1398-1453 (https://lccn.loc.gov/no2001030940)
• Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. (https://lccn.loc.gov/n79092622)

Other related names

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

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 48
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms48.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This humanistic manuscript was copied on parchment in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century. The first four works are three letters of Poggio Bracciolini, including one on nobility and one against avarice, and a poem by Carlo Marsuppino (Aretino) on nobility; these share a page layout, illuminated initials, and marginal notes of proper names in red. Three brief letters by Petrarch and an Easter table have been added at the end (fols. 103v-114r) and have spaces left for illuminated initials. Manicules and marginal annotations by multiple readers appear throughout.

Notes

• Previously Gordan 51
   

Extent

114+i; 222 x 152 mm bound to 232 x 165 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (8), 2 (12), 3-4 (10), 5 (7, +2), 6-8 (10), 9 (8), 10 (12), 11 (10), 12 (9, +3)

Signatures

Quires 1-11 signed a-i, k-l, in modern pencil, lower right first recto

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower margin varying from the center to right of center

Binding

Twentieth-century parchment

Layout

Single column of twenty-one lines (fols. 1r-105v) or twenty-two to twenty-three lines (fols. 106r-113r); ruled with faint vertical bounding lines in hard point with a double vertical bounding line on the left and a single on the right in ink; remains of pricking in right margin; written area: 136 x 90 mm

Decoration

Six three- or four-line illuminated initials with marginal foliate and floral extensions marking text divisions (fols. 1r, 3r, 38v, 43v, 48r, 50r) in the first four works of the volume; partial illuminated border with blue shield, its device effaced, in lower margin of opening page (fol. 1r); partial illuminated border with pink flowers from a gold urn in lower margin of the opening page of the fourth work (fol. 48r); at the end of the manuscript, spaces for decorative initials left unfilled, guide letters for decorator visible (fols. 103v, 106r, 108v); table in red and black (fol. 114r); rubricated in red throughout; marginalia in red or black throughout

Script

Humanistic

Written by multiple hands

Provenance

• Written in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century; in the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1995 (bookplate)
   

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. 399, no. 51.
• 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. 51.
• Ullman, B.L. Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padova, 1964) p. 460.
• Dutschke, Dennis. Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States (Padua, 1986), p. 219, no. 88.

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Poggio Bracciolini, De nobilitate; incipit: Non dubito prestantissime pater ... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ... de ambulandum extra oppidum censeo uisendumque fluuium quem iste nobis sepius ob fertilitatem piscium laudauit. [fol. 38v]
• fol. 38v — Epistola poggii florentini ad insignem virum d. Gregorium Corarium sedis ap[osto]lice Prothonotarium; incipit: Poggius Plurimam salutem dicit viro insigni gregorio Corario sedis apostolicae prothonotario. [fol. 38v]; explicit: ... et suauissimis moribus conuenire uideatur. Vale et me ut facis ama. florentie die octauo aprilis 1440. [fol. 43v]
• fol. 43v — Caroli arentini de nobilitate carmen; incipit: Quid sit nobilitas scribere liberis / Temptas quod pedibus tolle[re] du[m] cupis ... [fol. 43v]; explicit: Vltra quas possuit durior hercules / Metas nauigiis est male peruium. [fol. 46r]
• fol. 48r — Ad clarissimum virum franciscum barbarum Poggii florentini contra auaritiam; incipit: Qvoniam plures mortalium mi francisce non uiuunt sed agunt uitam ... [fol. 48r]; explicit: Sed cum satis collocuti simus et nox superuenerit abeundum censeo. Ita omnes consurrexerunt. [fol. 102v]
• fol. 103v — Epistola francisci petrarce ad fratrem Iohannem de colonnia; incipit: [A]nilem tibi fabulam, sed ex re ut flaccus ait garrio. Aranea iter agens, forte obuiam habuit podagram, et quo inquit tam mesta proficisceris. [fol. 103v]; explicit: . . . quo inde si pellere uis podagram pelle delitias, si malum omne uis pellere pelle diuitias et uale ad fontem forgie xo kal[endis] Julias. [fol. 105v]
• fol. 106r — Ad Clementem sextum Romanorum pontificem fugiendam medicorum turbam, epistola eiusdem; incipit: [F]ebris tue nuntius p[ate]r beatissime tremorem membris meis [et] horrorem attulit nec id circo blandi loquens aut similis dicar illi de quo satiricus ait. [fol. 106r]; explicit: ... spem bonam ac [letum] animum habeto, si te, si nos [o]mnes, si t[ecum e]grotantem ecclesiam saluam cupis ... [date effaced?; fol. 107v]
• fol. 108v — Epistola francisci petrarce poete Revocatio amici a periculosis amoribus; incipit: [V]erba michi nunc metus ac dolor eliciunt. Alterum sine altero forsam tacitus tulissem ... [fol. 108v]; explicit: Qui et ubi sim nosti quod te moneam intelligis quid de te metuam uides. uale caue circumspice. [fol. 113r]
• fol. 114r — Aureus numerus

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Phyllis Walter Goodhart
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Bryn Mawr College Library, "From the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordon '35"
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial N with marginal foliate extensions with owl
• fol. 1r — Effaced coat of arms
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial N with marginal foliate extensions
• fol. 6r — Manicule
• fol. 13r — Manicule
• fol. 15v — Manicule
• fol. 16v — Manicule
• fol. 38v — Illuminated initial P with marginal foliate extensions
• fol. 43v — Illuminated initial Q with marginal foliate extensions
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial Q with marginal foliate extensions
• fol. 48r — Partial illuminated floral border
• fol. 50r — Illuminated initial C with marginal floral extensions
• fol. 58r — Manicule
• fol. 58v — Manicule
• fol. 59r — Manicule
• fol. 69r — Manicule
• fol. 69v — Manicule
• fol. 71r — Manicule
• fol. 71v — Manicule
• fol. 72v — Manicule
• fol. 73r — Manicule
• fol. 100r — Manicule
• fol. 114r — Table, Golden numbers and dominical letters