[Renaissance miscellany].

Format:

Manuscript

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Education--Early works to 1800.

Education.

Ethics--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Helmuth Domizlaff (Munich), 1951.

Physical Description:

77 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 233 x 164 (147 x 101) mm bound to 237 x 172 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [1500?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Contents:

1. f.1r-33v: De ingenuis moribus / Pietro Paolo Vergerio.

2. f.33v-48r: De legendis antiquorum libris / St. Basil of Caesarea, translated by Leonardo Bruni.

3. f.48r-61r: [De studiis et letteris] / Leonardo Bruni.

4. f.62r-77v: Isagogicon moralis disciplinae / Leonardo Bruni.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Title and attribution for item 1 in a different hand from text (f. 1r).

Item 2 heading (f. 33v): Leonardi Aretini prefatio in libro Basilii Magni Greci incipit feliciter.

Item 3 heading (f. 48r, later addition): Leonardus Aretinus illustri D.D. Baptistinae de Malatestis.

Item 4 heading (f. 62r): Prestantissimi viri Leonardi Aretini Isagogicon moralis disciplinae galeotum ricasolanum feliciter incipit, f. 62r, in a different hand from the text.

Foliation: Paper; i (modern paper) + 77 + i (modern paper); [1-77]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 25 long lines (Items 1-3) and 27 long lines (Item 4); ruled in drypoint.

Script: Written in 2 humanistic hands, items 1-3 in first hand; item 4 in a second hand, with headings and marginal notations in several later hands, in Latin and Italian.

Decoration: Illuminated initials in red, green, blue, pink and gold (f. 1r, 33v, 62r); initials in red or blue.

Binding: Green vellum.

Origin: Written in Italy, ca. 1500. Leaf with date 1466 (f. 48r) is a later replacement.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 8 (Ms. Latin 34).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 685

Contains:

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. De legendis antiquorum libris.

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. Isagogicon moralis disciplinae.

Vergerio, Pietro Paolo, 1370-1444. De ingenuis moribus.

De studiis et litteris illustri D. D. Baptistinae de Malatestis.

OCLC:

155985398