De miseria conditionis humanae, 1450 - 1499
Abstract
This is a late fifteenth-century Italian manuscript of Poggio Bracciolini's De miseria conditionis humanae (usually called De miseria humanae conditionis). The work is a type of socratic reflection, inspired by the sack of Constantinople, which Bracciolini wrote in his retirement in Florence.
Dates
- Creation: 1450 - 1499
Creator
- Bracciolini, Poggio (Author, Person)
Extent
1 volumes
Language of Materials
Latin
Custodial History
Written in Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century. Early provenance unknown. In the library of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan (bookplate) and John Dozier Gordan, Jr.; her bequest to Bryn Mawr College in 1995.
Author
- Bracciolini, Poggio (1380-1459)
Other related names
- Gordan, Phyllis Goodhart, former owner
- Gordan, John Dozier Jr., former owner
- Gordan, Phyllis Goodhart, donor
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bequest of Phyllis Goodhart Gordan to Bryn Mawr College in 1995.
Physical Description
Previously called Gordan MS 50
Paper support, (watermark similar to Briquet Monts 11726) ff. ii (modern paper) + 47 + iii (i contemporary, ii and iii modern paper).
Modern paper boards, leather spine, stamped in gold: POGGIO/ DE/ MISERIA. Restored by J. MacDonald Co. East Norwalk, Conn.
ii+ 48+ii; 255 x 207 mm bound to 261 x 218 mm.
Single column of twenty-nine lines; ruled in hardpoint with vertical bounding lines full length; written area: 145 x 111 mm.
Humanistic script written by a single scribe. Extensive marginal notations throughout.
A 4-line red penwork initial with elaborate black penwork extensions stretching all along the inner margin appears on f. 1r, and on 28r a similar, but slightly less elaborate, 3-line initial begins Book 2. On f. 2v space for initial left unfilled, guide letter for decorator visible.
Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
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