Leonardo Aretino Bruni manuscript, 1400 - 1444
Contents
A chapter book of stories about saints.
9r is blank, 9v is a letter to Michael Candidus regarding John the Baptist, 10r and 10v ar about the adolescence of John the Baptist.
The following notes were made by Professor James Hankins:
f. 1-8v Leon. Brunus, de studiis et litteris, to Baptista de Malatestis. Begins incipit (in rubricum): "Illustre demine Baptiste de malatestis Leonardus Brunus. Compulsus crebro rumore admirabilim virtutum tuarum...(fol 8v, desinit) ad gloricum cohorlari. Laus deo comnepoteuti." See Leonardo Bruni Aretino, Humanistisch-philosophische Schriften, ed. Hans Baron, Leipzig, 1928, for refs.
f.9 blank
f.9v P. Candidus (Decembrius), letter to Michael Pizzolpassus, inc. Lactantium tuvm. incipit (in rubricum):"P. Candidus [Pier Candido Decembrio] Michaeli pizzol passo suo salutem. Lactantium tuvm quem ad me...cura deinccps libros" (des.)
f. 10r: Pulcherrium Adolescentis loannis Baptiste incipit epigramma. Que quondam fueras foto pulohemimus orbe...Tullius alter erat. (21 lines)
same folio: Eusdem aliud epigramma. Que mihi iocundi...esca datus. (6 lines)
f. 10v: Honestissim, Adolescentis loanmis Baptistae de bove quem impiisimo execrablisque pestis vita privavit incipit epithaphium. Ingnui mores prosunt quid forma inventas...altera preda lovis (16 lines)
same folio: Alia eiusdem subscriptio. Impia cum tenerum...magnus appllo [sic: sc. Apollo] caput. (4 lines)
same folio: Aliud eiusdem epigramma. Etsi me miserum...portar ego (4 lines)
f. 10-10v Five epitaphs on Joh. Bapt. de Bove (inc. Qui quondam fueras, 21 lines; inc. Qui mihi iocundi, 6 lines; inc. Ingenui mores prosunt, 16 lines; inc. Impia cum tenenrum, 4 lines; inc. Etsi me miserum, 4 lines.)
Written in brown galled ink with marginal notes. Watermark may belong to the class symbolizing the Millennium as described by Harold Bayley, Notes on Watermarks, 1905, p. 60.
Dates
- Creation: 1400 - 1444
Creator
- Bruni, Leonardo (Leonardo Aretino Bruni) (Author, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Author
Manuscript of Leonardo Aretino Bruni, 1369-1444, an Italian scholar, author of History of the Florentine People, 1442.
Extent
1 manuscripts
Language of Materials
Latin
Source of acquisition
Found among the papers of Dean P. Lockwood.
Material
Paper manuscript. Manuscript has some paper repair and no title page. It has paper binding, late 19th century or early 20th century.
Extent
28 x 21 cm.
Subject
- Lockwood, Dean Putnam, 1883- (Owner, Person)
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