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Illuminations (paintings)

 Subject
Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

De nobilitate, etc., 1425 - 1475

 Item
Identifier: MS 48
Abstract This humanistic manuscript was copied on parchment in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century. The first four works are three letters of Poggio Bracciolini, including one on nobility and one against avarice, and a poem by Carlo Marsuppino (Aretino) on nobility; these share a page layout, illuminated initials, and marginal notes of proper names in red. Three brief letters by Petrarch and an Easter table have been added at the end (fols. 103v-114r) and have spaces left for illuminated initials....
Dates: 1425 - 1475

Orationes ad nicolaum V, etc., 1425 - 1475

 Item
Identifier: MS 41
Abstract This fifteenth-century Italian manuscript contains six texts: Giannozzo Manetti, Oration to Nicholas V (fols. 1r-10v); Poggio Bracciolini, oratio ad summum pontificem Nicolaum V (fols. 11r-19r); Franciscus de Padua de Florentia, Letter to Nicholas V (fols. 19r-24r); Leonardo Bruni, Oratiuncula ad Martinum V (fols. 24r-26r); Leonardo Bruni, State Letter for the Commune of Florence to the Emperor (fols. 26v-27v); Leonardo Bruni, State letter for the Commune of Florence to the Council of Basel...
Dates: 1425 - 1475