Fifteenth Century (dates CE)

Abstract This is a manuscript from Eastern Germany or Poland, written in 1454, which contains Bonaventure's Commentary on Book II of Peter Lombard's Sentences. The major and minor text divisions are marked by one- to five-line red ink initials, with some of the larger initials having terminals ending in foliage serifs. There are running headings on verso in black and the guide letters for the decorator are visible beside or inside the initials. Some quires are supported along the inner margin by...

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This is a northern Italian, late fifteenth-century manuscript containing two texts: Leonardo Bruni's Rerum suo tempore commentarius and his Oratio Heliogabali Augusti ad meretrices, which is preceded by an argumentum.

Abstract ff. 1r-140r [Title:] M. Annaei Lucani Civilis Belli sive Pharsaliae Liber Primus incipit Inc: Bella per Emathios plus quam civilia campos/ Iusque datum sceleri canimus populumque potentem: Expl.: Ad campos epidaure [sic] tuos, ubi solus apertis/ Obsedit muris calcantem moenia Magnus. Finis. Deo Gratias Amen On f. 140 v the text concludes with four unidentified lines of verse: Optatos tandem tetigerunt carbasa portus/ Et sedet in tuto littore fessa ratis./ Quo deus emeritas peragam tibi...

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This late fifteenth-century manuscript contains Leonardo Bruni's De bello italico adversus gothos and two letters by Bruni.

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Table of contents: Senatus populusque romanus mutuis saepe contentionibus de legum latione uel si quando debitorum abrogationes partiones [sic] fierent; Illirios greci eos existimant qui supra macedoniam et traciam a chaonis et tesprostis ad fluuium Istrum sedes habent.

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This is an Italian manuscript from the mid-fifteenth century, which contains Eusebius' De evangelica praeparatione, translated by George of Trebizond.

Abstract This is a mid-fifteenth-century Italian paper manuscript of Saint Ambrose's De fide ad gratianum augustum libri quinque, a defense of Christian orthodoxy. It is undecorated, and the blank spaces left for initials have not been filled in. There are a small number of annotations. Greek phrases in the source text are either left out, with space left for words, or transliterated in Latin letters. Greek for some of the transliterations has been added in the outer margin in a later hand (fols....

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Iosephus, De Vetustate Iudeorum.

Abstract f. 1r blank. ff. 1v-9r [Title:] Magni Basilii Archiepiscopi Cesarie capadotie ad nepotes. de legendis auctoribus [Prologue:] Ego tibi hunc librum Coluti ex media ut aiunt grecia delegi ubi eiuscemodi rerum magna copia est et infinita pene multitudo. [Text, f. 2r:] Magni Basilii Archiepiscopi Cesarie capadotie ad nepotes de legendis auctoribus gentilibus libellus incipit. Inc.: Multa sunt filii que hortantur me ad ea vobis consulenda que optima esse duco. . . Expl.: . . . quidem medicos...

Abstract Table of contents: f. 1r Contains miscellaneous nearly-contemporary notes relating to the text in various hands, f. 1v Ruled but blank; M. T. Ciceronis de Legvm Emendationibvs, Marivs libellus incipit; Principio tractato in Rhetoricis, caput 1; Ci[cero] de senectute; Four-line mnemonic device for the seven roman military ranks; brief list of the seven ages of man from infant to child followed by a list of seven ages of the world; Totius cronice Epylogus et Supputatio; Ex lactantio sententie...