Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De primo bello punico (On the first Punic War)

Authors

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

Other related names

• Illuminator, Master of the Vitae Imperatorum, active 1402-1459, artist (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr00002774.html)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Richardson, Thomas, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 54
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1611341
• deRicci: 184

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Milan?, Italy

Summary

This manuscript contains a treatise on the first Punic War.

Extent

Iii+78+i; 217 x 148 mm bound to 227 x 158 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; contemporary numbering of quires in ink, lower middle margin verso

Collation

1-9 (8), 10 (6)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal lower right corner verso; fols.: 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72

Binding

Original brown calf over wooden boards; stamped with arabesques and emblems of the Paschal lamb; back repaired

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink; one column of twenty-nine lines; written area: 126 x 75 mm

Decoration

One eight-line decorated initial with full inhabited border; two large illuminated initials; red and blue three-line initials throughout; some marginalia

Script

Humanistic

Scribe: Milano Borro

Colophon

Laus Deo per milanum burrum 1444

Provenance

• Written for Giovanni-Maria Viscount of Sforza, Duke of Milan ?; Trivulzio-Belgioioso-Trotti Collection, Milan, sold (1885) to Hoepli; sale by Leavitt, New York, (1888); Thomas Richardson, Boston; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia (obtained 1919); given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; notes written in pencil by Lewis on inside of front cover; paper with the signature of T. F. Richardson and "no. 17"; on pasted on to inside front cover; tipped onto the front flyleaf is a hand-ruled page of notes written in Italian in an eighteenth-century hand that describes the manuscript as being made for Giovanni Maria Visconti of Somma; signature and stamp of Lewis on the recto of the first flyleaf, dated 1919; stamp of Richardson on recto of front flyleaf; cutting from a manuscript pasted onto the recto of fol. 78, probably from a prayer book; on fol. 1r the coat of arms of the Sforza family
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Italian
• Colophon
• Original binding
• Notable binding
• Italy
• History
• Humanistic

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De primo bello punico (On the first Punic War); incipit: Vereor ne qui putent me antiqua nimium consectari si commentaria primi punici o belli; explicit: pauca loca excedere iussi sunt. Explic[it] Gallicu[m] Bellu[m] Post Primu[m] Punicu[m] cum Romanis Gestum Descriptum a Leonardo Aretino Viro Doctissimo Fe[lici]t[e]r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Notes written in pencil by John Frederick Lewis
• Inside front cover — Paper attached with the signature of T. F. Richardson and "no. 17"
• Insert i recto — Eighteenth-century note in Italian
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Signature and stamp of John Frederick Lewis, dated 1919
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Owner's stamp, Thomas F. Richardson
• fol. 1r — Eight line decorated initial V
• fol. 1r — Full inhabited border
• fol. 52r — Eight line Illuminated initial F
• fol. 65r — Thirteen line Illuminated initial P
• fol. 78r — Manuscript cutting attached to folio
• fol. 78r — "Laus Deo per milanum burrum 1444"
• fol. 78v — "Leonardus Aretin" written on fol. 78v in a cursive hand. Additional text on the page has been scraped off
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Signature and stamp of John Frederick Lewis, dated 1919
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Owner's stamp, Thomas F. Richardson