Epistolae, 1425 - 1475
Abstract
Table of contents: Leonardi Aretini ad Cosmam medicum florentinum Platonis epistole feliciter incipiunt; Leonardi Aretini ad Inocentium Septimum Pontificem maximum in translatone sedonis prohemium Feliciter Incipit; Leonardi Aretini Moralis Discipline Isagogicon ad Galiotum [sic] Ricasolanum.
Dates
- Creation: 1425 - 1475
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Latin
Custodial History
Written in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. Very faint note on f. 137r in ink, possibly in an 18th century hand, almost completely erased [rewritten directly below in pencil, in a modern hand]: “Mei Christophori Lornati”. On inside front cover, in ink: “De hoc Auctore vide quae scribit Laurentius Mehus edit. Florent. 1741 Ubi haec omnia, et alia Leonardi Bruni Aratini scripta recensentur.//Io: Rob: Pappataua.”; Table of contents in ink; unidentified bookplate: a winged lion, sword-in-hand, attacks another lion, without wings, who holds a shield, they fight across a four-wheeled wagon or, perhaps, a plow, a scroll beside them reads: “Nitimur in Vetitum”; also on the inside cover, in ink: “1071”, in lead: “501”, and “462/713”. List of titles tipped in before first page: “Platonis Opera ex Codice Nantano Orientalium. . .” In the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 9586 on spine on printed label; Bibliotheca Phillippica, p. 153). Sotheby Sale Catalog (1896), lot 953. In the collection of Robert Steele, Wandsworth Common (bookplate). Bought from Maggs in 1944 (catalogue entry glued inside front cover) by Howard L. Goodhart.
Authors
- Plato, approximately 428 B.C.-347 B.C., author
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444, translator
Other related names
- Phillips, Sir Thomas, former owner
- Sotheby, dealer
- Steele, Robert, Wandsworth Common, former ower
- Maggs Bros. Ltd., bookseller
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, former owner
- Goodhart, Howard Lehman, donor
- Gordan, Phyllis Goodhart, owner
- Gordan, John Dozier Jr., owner
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Given by Howard Lehman Goodhart to Phyllis Goodhart Gordan and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.
Physical Description
Each article written by a different scribe, art. 1 in a gothic hybrid, art. 2 in a large somewhat scrawling, humanistic cursive, and art. 3 in a round humanistic bookhand. James Hankins places these scribes in the scrittoio of Pier Candido Decembrio, and attributes some of the marginalia both in Latin and in Greek to Decembrio himself (e.g., f. 42v, 43v, and 70v; see plates in Cynthia Munro Pyle, “Pier Candido Decembrio and Rome,” Umanesimo a Roma nel Quattrocento; ed., Paolo Brezzi and Maristella de Panizza Lorch (Rome, 1984). Several later hands have also contributed marginal notes.
Paper support (Watermarks: Similar to Briquet Croix Grecque 5549, without the chain line through the center), ff. 138.
Original dark brown blind-tooled leather with marks for clasps and straps, from a Milanese bottega patronized by Decembrio; re-backed in 19th c. (Information on binding from an autograph note by Hankins on Gordan MS 75 dated 3-26-85.) On spine in gold: Platoni Epistolae &C. M.S. SÆC. XV.
212 X 160 mm
Written space for article 1: 133 x 95 mm., 28 ruled lines with single vertical bounding lines full length in ink (Derolez 13.11); article 2: 148 x 98 mm., 20-23 lines, not ruled except for single vertical bounding lines full length and a single horizontal bounding line between the vertical lines, top and bottom; article 3: 146 x 93 mm., 23 ruled lines with vertical and horizontal bounding lines full length (Derolez 13.13).
Gothic hybrid, humanistic curisve, and round humanisitc bookhand scripts, written by multiple scribes.
Blue initials, 3-line for arts. 1 and 2, 4-line for art. 3, begin each text. Each epistle in art. 1 begins with a 2-line blue or purple initial. Titles for all three articles and final salutation of art. 3 in red. Guide letters for decorator visible.
Contemporary foliation in black ink top right corner, recto; remains of contemporary foliation, each article numbered independently, beginning from 1, in red ink, in lower right corner, recto; quire signatures in lower right corner, recto
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